Source: China – South China Morning PostTwo hundred years ago on September 27, the age of the passenger train was born. Hundreds of passengers journeyed 26 miles from the coal mining town of Shildon in northeastern England through Darlington to the port of Stockton. George Stephenson’s steam-powered Locomotion No 1 carried them at 24km per hour, but its average speed on that historic journey was a little over half.
Today, the world is criss-crossed by hundreds of thousands of kilometres of railways, carrying around six billion tonnes…Read More