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# In September, the World's First Public Railway Turns 200
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/v-sentiabre-ispolniaetsia-200-let-so-dnia-otkrytiia-pervoi-v-mire-obshchestvennoi-zheleznoi-dorogi/
- Published: 2025-09-26T17:04:55.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:28:35.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Coming Up, Geography, Science

On 27 September 1825, the locomotive Locomotion No. 1, designed by George Stephenson, drew a train along the Stockton and Darlington line in the north-east of England. The name Locomotion soon became a common noun: the word "locomotive" came to be applied not only to steam engines but to other self-propelled rail machines as well.

In honour of the anniversary, from 26 to 28 September this year a replica of Locomotion No. 1, with its coal wagons and a copy of the passenger carriage Experiment, will once again travel its original route.