1. Early Steam Trains, 1700-1840 The struggle to build and run the World’s first steam locomotives

8. Railway Mania!

9. Journey times from London (in hours)

10. Each part of the country had its own time when the first railways were built. It caused such confusion that station clocks began using London time. In 1880, Greenwich Mean Time became everyone’s time in Britain.

11. The ‘modern world’ took off with the coming of the railways. The world was never the same again after 1830.