Sentence examples for of the first railways from inspiring English sources

He gave much attention to the planning of the first railways.

He followed public events closely, such as the establishment of the first railways in Britain in 1825 and the July Revolution in France in 1830 (which influenced the closing scenes of Faust).

The first stretch of this line, one of the first railways in Europe, opened in 1835 between Brussels and Mechelen.

In 1860 he completed the Pimlico Bridge across the River Thames, one of the first railway bridges in the area.

Start in Goathland (you can take the steam train there: nymr.co.uk) and walk down the incline, a remnant of the first railway track connecting Whitby and Pickering, dating from the 1830s, or make the pub the base and strike up across the moors or continue along the old track bed, following the river towards Esk Valley.

In particular, the concession system was used for the construction of the first railway lines and then for the construction of the motorway network.

This was corroborated by the route of the first railway in Croatia, which passes through Zaprešić.

In 1842, Tonbridge Priory was demolished to make way for the building of the first railway station.

Historians of the Second Empire later regarded the railways as the first indicator of a unified state; the patriotic novelist, Wilhelm Raabe, wrote: "The German empire was founded with the construction of the first railway..."....

Ever since critics of the first railway trains predicted the time and space distorting effects of the cinema, humanity has been apprehensive of traveling long distances without taking them by foot.

The urbanisation and development of Giffnock began in the mid to late nineteenth century with the construction of several sandstone quarries, and this prompted the development of the first railway link with nearby Glasgow.