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It’s incredible how much the Industrial Revolution was a purely British endeavour. The contributions of other major global powers like France, Spain, and the US were negligible compared to Britain and occurred much later.
Goes to show being first gets you nothing but your notes copied.
It got them to be world's greatest power for a century.
There ended up being 4 lines between the two cities. Hard to believe such a thing was possible in this day and age. I guess if there were no cars trains would be much more popular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool%E2%80%93Manchester_l...
Which is fine if the reliability and comfort have improved [checks notes] Oh, never mind then.
(For me, it'd be fine for it to take an hour if you know it's absolutely going to be an hour, you know reliably when that hour is going to be, and you're not standing for that hour in a vestibule that reeks of urine. Alas, UK trains have yet to get to grips with running to timetable and also run enough trains to not have them packed out to standing.)
This country used to invent and build things.