LONDON (AP) — Thousands of people on Saturday celebrated the 200th anniversary of the historic British train journey that laid the foundations for much of the modern age.
On Sept. 27, 1825, the first steam powered railway engine to run on a public railway — George Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 — made its 26-mile (42-kilometer) journey on the Stockton & Darlington Railway between Shildon and Stockton in the northeast of England.
It was a small but significant milestone, which augured rapid changes in the way Britain, and subsequently the world, lived, traded, traveled and communicated.
Though the Stockton & Darlington was not the first railway, it was the first to incorporate the
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