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The Railways in Britain |
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The success of early railways such as the lines between big cities |
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led to a great increase in railway building in Victorian Times. |
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Between 1835 and 1865 about 25,000 kilometers of tracks were built. |
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And over 199 railway companies were created. |
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Railway travel transformed people's lives. |
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Trains were first designed to carry goods. |
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However, a law in the 19th century forced railway companies to run one cheap train a day, |
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which stopped at every station and cost only a penny a mile. |
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Soon, working class passengers found they could afford to travel by rail. |
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Cheap day excursion trains became popular and seaside resorts grew rapidly. |
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The railways also provided thousands of new jobs, |
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building carriages, running the railways and repairing the tracks. |
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Railways even changed the time. |
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The need to run the railways on time meant that local time was abolished |
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and clocks showed the same time all over the country. |
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