[originaltext] The Railways in Britain The succ

The Railways in Britain
    The success of early railways, such as the lines between big cities,/led to a great increase in railway building in Victorian times./Between 1835 and 1865 about 25,000 kilometers of track were built,/and over 100 railway companies were created./Railway travel transformed people’s lives./Trains were first designed to carry goods./However, a law in the 19th century forced railway companies to run one cheap train a day/which stopped at every station and cost only a penny a mile./Soon working class passengers found they could afford to travel by rail./Cheap Day Excursion trains became popular and seaside resorts grew rapidly./The railways also provided thousands of new jobs:/building carriages, running the railways and repairing the track./Railways even changed the time./The need to run the railways on time meant/that local time was abolished and the clocks showed the same time all over the country./