Some historical forms of public transport are the stagecoach, traveling a fixed route from coaching inn to coaching inn, and the horse-drawn boat carrying paying passengers, which was a feature of European canals from their 17th-century origins. (The canal itself is a form of infrastructure dating back to antiquity – it was used at least for freight transportation in ancient Egypt to bypass the Aswan cataract – and the Chinese also built canals for water transportation as far back as the Warring States period.[6] Whether or not those canals were used for for-hire public transport is unknown; the Grand Canal was primarily used for shipping grain.) The omnibus, the first organized public transit system within a city, appears to have originated in Paris, France, in 1662,[7] although the service in question failed a few months after its founder, Blaise Pascal, died; omnibuses are next known to have appeared in Nantes, France, in 1826. The omnibus was introduced to London in July 1829.[8] The first passenger horse-drawn railway was opened in 1806 between Swansea and Mumbles in South Wales, United Kingdom.[9] In 1825, George Stephenson built the Locomotion for the Stockton and Darlington Railway, north east England, which was the first public steam railway in the world. |
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