Public steam railway (Stockton and Darlington)
Ferrocarril público de vapor (Stockton–Darlington)
- Date
- 1825 · confidence high
- Place
- Darlington, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- George Stephenson and Edward Pease
- People
- 👤 Edward Pease1767–1858👤 George Stephenson1781–1848
- Field
- Movement
What it is
The first public railway to use steam locomotives (Locomotion No. 1) to carry coal and passengers. It set the 1,435 mm gauge that would become the world standard.
Passenger traction was initially mixed: locomotives for coal and horses for passenger carriages.
What it led to
- The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830) and the 'railway mania' of the 1840s
- The international standard gauge
- Labour mobility and mass tourism (Thomas Cook, 1841)
- Market integration and the disappearance of local famines in Western Europe
Built on
- Steam locomotive1804
- Wrought-iron rail (Birkinshaw, 1820)
Made possible
- First railway in Latin America (Havana–Bejucal)1837
- Electric telegraph1837
- Standardized railway time1840-1847
- India's first railway (Bombay–Thane)16 de abril de 1853
- Underground urban railway (London Metropolitan Railway)1863
- Sleeping car (Pullman Pioneer)1865
- Darjeeling Himalayan Railway1881
- Central Andean Railway (Lima–La Oroya)1870-1893
- Hejaz Railway (Damascus-Medina)1900-1908
- Railway time zone
- London Underground