| The history of trains is an amazing one and it is | | | | and more distances. In the same century, the |
| closely related to the economical frames of the | | | | railway for passengers developed in Russia and in |
| last centuries. Before becoming the comfortable | | | | the United States, and the phenomenon soon |
| means of transport that they are today, trains | | | | covered the entire world. Trains became more |
| were mainly use for economical purposes, such as | | | | and more rapid and numerous and the train was a |
| a way of transporting supplies or raw goods. | | | | main way of transport for longer distances until |
| Now, trains are mainly about passengers, but this | | | | the 20th century. |
| situation is a matter of the 20th century mainly. | | | | The 20th century was the century of revolution |
| In past centuries, the trains were not exactly | | | | when speaking about the means of transport. It |
| what they are today. | | | | was the century of the plane that is currently |
| The birth of the railway occurred in England, and | | | | used as the main mean of transport when it |
| this was not surprising since England was beginning | | | | comes to long distances. |
| to be highly industrialized. Of course, the trains | | | | The train is still highly used in the 20th century |
| looked differently from the technologies that we | | | | and it was a very useful means of transport |
| know today and there were no regular services | | | | during the two World Wars. In time, the old |
| for passengers. However, somewhere at the later | | | | locomotives were replaced with Diesel ones. They |
| half of the 19th century, the promoters of | | | | are more efficient, cleaner and they definitely |
| railway transport, who were mainly interested in | | | | require less maintenance than the old types of |
| the traffic of goods, discovered to their | | | | steam locomotives. |
| amazement that the traffic of passengers can be | | | | At the end of the 20th century, high-speed trains |
| extremely rewarding. Thus, the success they had | | | | appeared in the majority of countries around the |
| in Manchester and Liverpool influenced the future | | | | world. Currently, there are high speed trains in UK, |
| development of the railway not only in Britain, but | | | | United States, China, Italy, Germany, Spain, |
| abroad as well. | | | | Belgium, Spain and many more other countries. |
| The lines were short and it took some decades | | | | Trains are thus still important ways of transport |
| before making them longer and covering more | | | | even in our modern times. |