Great Steam Trains: 1. Britain’s First Railways

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Can you imagine it? Carrying coal on bumpy tracks from mines to ships in big bags strapped to ponies. Try another way. In little ‘waggons’ running on ‘tramways’ pulled just as slowly by a single pony. It was all too slow. Why ships though? These were the only way to carry it to the big factories that were making iron and steel. These used vast amounts of coal.