. The railway library . WBim^sM? Race of Locomotives at Rainhill, near Liverpool, in which George Stephensons Rocket Won. 1829. Rainhill trials on October 6, 1829, that the company decided toadopt steam locomotives as the tractive power upon the railway was opened September 13, 1830, its passenger trafficimmediately surpassing every expectation. At the close of the transition period railway companies undertheir private acts were: (1) owners and toll takers on a road open tothe public; (2) suppliers of mechanical motive power on that road. Full development the writer regards as the
. The railway library . WBim^sM? Race of Locomotives at Rainhill, near Liverpool, in which George Stephensons Rocket Won. 1829. Rainhill trials on October 6, 1829, that the company decided toadopt steam locomotives as the tractive power upon the railway was opened September 13, 1830, its passenger trafficimmediately surpassing every expectation. At the close of the transition period railway companies undertheir private acts were: (1) owners and toll takers on a road open tothe public; (2) suppliers of mechanical motive power on that road. Full development the writer regards as the amplification offunction from mere ownership of the railway to acting as the sole A RIVAL OF THE ROCKETrailwaylibrary05thom
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