[00:04.15]The Railways in Britain
[00:06.69]The success of early railways such as the lines between big cities
[00:11.71]led to a great increase in railway building in Victorian Times.
[00:16.93]Between 1835 and 1865 about 25,000 kilometers of tracks were built.
[00:23.88]And over 199 railway companies were created.
[00:28.01]Railway travel transformed people's lives.
[00:31.20]Trains were first designed to carry goods.
[00:34.54]However, a law in the 19th century forced railway companies to run one cheap train a day,
[00:42.06]which stopped at every station and cost only a penny a mile.
[00:46.60]Soon, working class passengers found they could afford to travel by rail.
[00:52.03]Cheap day excursion trains became popular and seaside resorts grew rapidly.
[00:58.08]The railways also provided thousands of new jobs,
[01:02.04]building carriages, running the railways and repairing the tracks.
[01:07.25]Railways even changed the time.
[01:09.62]The need to run the railways on time meant that local time was abolished
[01:14.36]and clocks showed the same time all over the country.
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