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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 8 (December 1, 1927)

The New Toy

The New Toy.

It was on September 27th, 1825, that the first public railway in Great Britain had its cradling, when, to the open-mouthed amazement of thousands of spectators the engine “Locomotion” with George Stephenson for driver, puffed its gallant way along the new Stockton and Darlington line with a long wake of wagons and trucks behind it. But, though “all the world wondered” at such a revolutionary feat of locomotion, we may be sure that no one-not even the great Stephenson himself-foresaw the colossal dimensions the infant cradled on that historic day a century ago was destined to assume.

And surely seldom, if ever, has an infant enterprise come to its birth with more difficulty or a longer delay.