How have trains changed your lives?

Answer 1

Once people had grown more used to the idea of the railways and destroyed their initial fear, they began to appreciate their greatness and usefulness a lot more. They opened up a whole new way for both people and cargo to be transported all over the country far quicker than they had been before. This meant that people could finally travel. People who lived extremely close to the sea, and yet at the same time had never seen it before, could discover its beauty, and people who had stayed in their small villages for all of their lives could now venture away from it for the first time in their lives. The railways swept around the country so fast, that the changes that they made were almost unbelievable.

Answer 2

By allowing the quick and easy distribution of goods and services across long distances, to markets which would have otherwise been inaccessible.