Practice question · Numerical answer
In which year did the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the first modern intercity line, open?
Hints
- It is a little over a decade before the 1841 census.
- Eighteen thirty.
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1830
Why
1830. What made it modern was not the track but the package: locomotives on both directions of a double line, scheduled passenger service, and a company carrying goods and people for profit. Within twenty years Britain had a national network, and the effect on the price and speed of moving anything was larger than any single manufacturing invention.
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