Monday, June 18, 2007

On this day in history...

From a daily email I get from The Scotsman, today's Fact of the Day:
This day in 1846 the North British Railway was opened from Edinburgh to Berwick-on-Tweed. The inaugural train had five locomotives and 28 carriages, displaying - according to the account in The Scotsman - "the flexibility of a silken cord, while rivalling the eagle's flight in speed". Get today's Edinburgh transport news at news.scotsman.com

Do schools still teach about how railroads changed the world? I mean, the impact was enormous, wasn't it?

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