How Did The Railways Affect Britain?

In this essay will write how the invention of the railway effected Britain in so many ways, some superior some terrible.  At the end I will sate my onion stating what I think the biggest effect was and why using facts and onion. 

            The first mechanical steam engine that would be good enough to power these trains was invented in 1804 by Richard Trevithick it was the only engine powerful enough to carry ten tons of steel and 10 people.  This was the start of the railway line that was to change Britain for years to come. 

            The invention of the railway meant that people didn’t have to live where they worked.  For example in the countryside was nicer and cleaner air than in the towns although there was more jobs in the town, and you could go form the countryside to work in a cheap and affordable way. Towns that were never known of were built on the creation of the railway with people living there who work in the lines and trains. Some of the people had never seen anywhere else apart from where they live and now thanks the railway’s they could finally go away within England they could visit the beach.  This was an advantage for places like Blackpool or Southport which started making for money than ever from tourism. Tourism wasn’t the only thing that was making money in the coal was needed to run the trains so the coal industry boomed and was getting bigger and bigger everyday, steel needed was make the trains, so steal was now greatly more expensive.   People’s health were improved as food could be delivered fresh and as fridges haven’t been invented yet they had to cover it in salt,  but because of how quick the trains were it could be delivered how it was fresh with no salt. The amount of births in places improved as quoted from “http://hisotrylearn.tripod.com/” “In Hampshire the amount of births before railway lines were 92 after they were built there were 105 born in Hampshire”. Papers could now be delivered on the say they were printed. 

            A normal horse on a bumpy road which they normally where in them times could carry about half a ton and cover about ten miles a day.  A horse on a straight track pulling a cart with about a ton in could cover about twenty miles a day, where as the train could pull 40 tons of carriages and cover about two hundred miles a day. 

            The trains also changed the time as because different places at that time were set to where the sun set so trains would crash as they thought that the railway lines where free at for example six o’clock but six o’clock in London could be eight O’clock in Scotland so Greenwich Mean Time became everyone’s time in Britain, and they clocks were the same all over Britain.

            While there are a lot of good reasons there were also bad reasons.  People who would normally ride people in the horse and cart many of them were put out of a job although some stayed in business because if you wanted to go on a short trip it may be cheaper to go by horse and cart or the train might not even go there.  The trains gave people a lot of worries though as they were worried about whether the trains could crash or fall off the tracks.  No one had ever seen a train before and because of this they didn’t no about them so they had worries that we now no are not accurate and doesn’t happen.  Citizens where scared that the trains would stop the cows from milking as the sound would scare them to much.  They also thought that the trains would make pregnant women have a miscarriage and the baby would come out early, the trains would make the people near by go mad.  We now no these to be untrue.

            I believe that the most important effect of the railway being built was