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Railway history: everything you wanted to know

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

What was it like to travel on the earliest trains, before open carriages, and even toilets? When was the first rail accident? And how did railways transform nations and continents? Christian Wolmar answers listener questions on the history of the railways. Speaking to Ellie Cawthorne, he touches on industrial innovation, passengers’ experiences on early train journeys, and the role of railways in imperialism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

0:05.0

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

0:07.3

You've been immature and you've lied.

0:10.3

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

0:13.9

I was trying to manipulate you.

0:15.7

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

0:18.1

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

0:20.6

I don't know.

0:21.7

I guess you'd have to ask.

0:23.5

Someone that has sex.

0:24.2

Someone that has sex.

0:25.2

Right.

0:26.4

And remember, it's just between us.

0:32.3

Welcome to the History Extra podcast.

0:35.7

Fascinating historical conversations from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.

0:45.8

What was it like to travel on the earliest trains before they had open carriages or even toilets?

0:58.1

When was the first rail accident or train hijack? And how did railways transform nations and continents?

1:06.6

In today's Everything You Wanted to Know episode, I'm putting your questions on the history

1:11.6

of railways to Christian Walmart, an expert on the history of train travel whose many

1:17.3

books on the subject include Railways and the Raj, British Rail and New History, and Blood

1:23.0

and Iron, How the Railways Transformed the World.

1:26.8

Thank you so much for joining me today to talk about the history of railways.

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