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From the History of Railways

We usually think of railways as a means of travel. It is true. But their most important function is to carry freight. Railways play a very important part in the national economy of a country because the economic and political development of a country depends on a wide network of transportation systems.

The early railways were not like the railways we have today. The very first railways used horses for drawing trains. They were used for transporting such products as coal, ore and timber.

Later on, the horse railways were used as passenger transport in large cities. But these railways did not last long.

One of the first attempts to use the steam engine to draw passenger and freight trains was made in 1808 by Richard Trevithick, an Englishman, who demonstrated his working model in London. The locomotive was called "Catch-me-who-can", and people could really catch it.

In 1829 George Stephenson, an English inventor and engineer, built a successful steam locomotive which he called the "Rocket". This locomotive could draw a small train of loaded cars

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