Obviously
leaves wouldn't fall in mines, I was just giving that as an example of railways being used some four centuries before there were trains. Prior to the birth of the railway network, there were already hundreds of short-haul railways around Britain, serving the canals, carrying goods from quarries, factories, or ports to the canals for shipment around the country.
Tomorrow we'll be looking at the early years of the steel industry in the Ruhr valley.
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Tomorrow we'll be looking at the early years of the steel industry in the Ruhr valley.