Did The Victorians Build Trains That Could Cross Water? | The Victorians Built Britain

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Railway Mania ripped through Victorian Britain in 1840's. The revolution completely transformed Britain and gave rise to some of the most innovative machines the world has ever seen.

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00:00 Intro
02:10 Stephenson Rocket
05:40 World’s Oldest Railway
09:57 Gauge War
14:50 Iron Duke
16:24 Telegraph Network
19:10 Mail By Rail
23:25 Queen Victoria’s Carriage
25:10 Double Fairlie
28:38 Necropolis
32:40 Electric Railway
34:20 Daddy Long Legs
36:05 Mount Snowdon #Documentary #Technology

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Very interesting. Thank a lot. Pity, that Ken Follett has not wrote a historical novel devoted to first railways and steam locomotives.

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