04 April 2007 Europe

WORLD'S FIRST WOULD HAVE BEEN 200

On 25 March 2007, the world's first passenger railway would have been 200 years old. The original ancestor, known as the Mumbles Train, was a four-wheeled "dandy", drawn by a horse, along a track from Swansea Canal around Swansea Bay to Oystermouth in Mumbles, Wales. The line was actually put down t

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