1. Railways and Trains
By Luke Commons

2. Railways
The first railway that was invented in the history was in the 1800s by Richard Trevithick. He was an English engineer born in Cornwall in England. And that was where the first ever Railway was built. The United States was second. In the United States the railway was invented by Tom Cooper and it was designed by him. Trevithick became an mining engineer at the young age. The first person that invented the railway in Ireland was William Dargan which was from Dublin to Kingstown (Dunleary).

3. Steam Engines
The steam engine was developed over a period of about a hundred years by three British inventors. The first crude steam powered machine was built by Thomas Savery, of England, in  Savery built his machine to help pump water out of coal mines.
A boiler full of water that the fire heats up to make steam. A cylinder and piston, rather like a bicycle pump but much bigger. Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquees of Worcester. The inventor of the first steam engine or train in Ireland was Thomas Savery And Endward Somerset but a company probably brought it over to Ireland

4. About the Railways and Trains
The thing about these trains and railways now has got quite popular. The Trains are way much faster nowadays. It is just their Speed and holds more passengers but steam trains are still around.
How to fuel the steam engine was you would have a fire in front of you and a few spades of coal and it would be moving. Their was a lot of controls in order to make the steam train off/on. And their would usually be 2 engineers at a time but a train it would sometimes hold 4.

5. The first train station
The first train station was opened in 1830 in Manchester on Liverpool road station in England. Opened in 1836, Spa Road railway station in London was the city’s first terminus and also the world’s first elevated station and terminus. The first train station that was built in Ireland was in of October the locomotive Hibernia brought a train the full route from the Westland Row terminus which is now called Dublin Pearse to Kingstown. The railway was built to 1,435mm which is 4ft 8 ½ in standard gauge. The entire route forms part of present day Dublin Area Rapid Transit electrified commuter rail system.

6. Hope you enjoyed By Luke Commons
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