{"id":1907,"date":"2025-09-21T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2025-09-21T12:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T11:00:17","slug":"the-first-passenger-railway-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/21\/the-first-passenger-railway-service\/","title":{"rendered":"The first passenger railway service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Britain is currently commemorating 200 years of railways with a series of events having taken place this year, arising out of the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton &amp; Darlington Railway, which will occur on 27th September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, this was not the first railway in Britain\/globally as many mineral tramways predated this. In addition, there was at least one passenger service that predated the S&amp;DR, which was the Swansea &amp; Mumbles Railway in Wales, also known as the Oystermouth Tramway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The line was built to primarily carry limestone from Mumbles to Swansea, however, a horse drawn passenger service commenced in March 1807.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c98e1pp6z7ro\">BBC<\/a> has an article going into the details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain is currently commemorating 200 years of railways with a series of events having taken place this year, arising out of the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton &amp; Darlington Railway, which will occur on 27th September. However, this was not the first railway in Britain\/globally as many mineral tramways predated this. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}