"No thank you," Spencer said, shaking his head and getting comfortable as
he settled in on the sofa. "You know, the first use of steam locomotives
was in Britain. The earliest "railways" were completely straight and were
constructed from timber that people rode on in horse-drawn carts. Those
were made obsolete in 1793 when Benjamin Outram constructed a mile-long
tramway with L-shaped cast iron rails- Which were in turn replaced again
when William Jessop began to manufacture cast iron rails without guiding
ledges. However, cast iron is brittle, and in 1820, John Birkenshaw
introduced a method of rolling wrought iron rails, which were used from
then on," he said, happily chatting away.
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"No thank you," Spencer said, shaking his head and getting comfortable as he settled in on the sofa. "You know, the first use of steam locomotives was in Britain. The earliest "railways" were completely straight and were constructed from timber that people rode on in horse-drawn carts. Those were made obsolete in 1793 when Benjamin Outram constructed a mile-long tramway with L-shaped cast iron rails- Which were in turn replaced again when William Jessop began to manufacture cast iron rails without guiding ledges. However, cast iron is brittle, and in 1820, John Birkenshaw introduced a method of rolling wrought iron rails, which were used from then on," he said, happily chatting away.