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Railway history: everything you wanted to know

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Early Railways - A History Extra Podcast

Martin Fennity has asked about the facilities like food drinks and toilets that were available on early trains. There weren't any available early trains certainly for the first 20 or 30 years, he says. The railway companies were quite slow in providing these facilities but by the end of the 19th century they were becoming your toilets and dining cars,. Miss 93 had a question in from Miss 93 about who staged the first train hijack or train robbery?

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