Oystermouth Railway
June 20, 2008 10:04 AM Subscribe
The first passenger carrying railway in the world. In 1960, a local bus company bought the line and with a colossal lack of imagination promptly closed it down, oblivious to the howls of the local residents.
Private narrow minded greed, trumps the public good, time and time again.
What a tourist magnet it could have been been, especially if they would have run steam engines on it.
The tiny island of Britain changed the world, one big element of that change, was railways.
The amazing thing about a railway is, it extends the supply line for its materials, with which it builds itself, it becomes a self fulfilling prophesy.
This post was deleted for the following reason: this needs to be a little more linking to something cool on the web (one wikipedia link is not enough) and a little less editorializing about railways. railways are cool, you should make a better post about railways. -- jessamyn
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