What two cities in England did the first railway connect?
Summer Daugherty
2025-04-24 12:36:48
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The idea of a passenger railway caught the attention of George Thomas Landmann. He had retired in 1824 as an officer in the Royal Engineers after a distinguished career, latterly in Canada where he had built forts to defend against an American invasion. In 1831 Landmann and George Walter made a proposal to create a 3½-mile railway from Tooley Street, Southwark on the south side of London Bridge to London Street, Greenwich. The London & Greenwich Railway ran along a four-mile long viaduct from Tooley Street on the south side of London Bridge. But in September 1830 the Liverpool & Manchester opened, the world’s first passenger railway to connect two cities, with trains pulled by steam locomotives operating in each direction on two lines.