Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Liverpool to Manchester, England
The world's first inter-city passenger railway opened, marking the beginning of the Railway Age.
The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
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