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The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) in the UK, which opened in 1825, was the world's first permanent steam locomotive hauled public railway.

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In 1803 the first public railway, The Southern Iron Railway opened in South London. In1807 the first fare paying passenger service was established as the Oystermouth Railway in Swansea, Wales. In 1825 the Stockton to Darlington Railway, the first publicly subscribed railway, opened for freight, passengers were transported by horse drawn carriages


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