A History of The World in 500 Railway JourneysHistory is everywhere, and is never as complete as when it can be accessed on a part of history itself. The locomotive is one of the great steps in progress of civilisation that undoubtably connects us to land and history that was shaped by the machine itself. Although a basic form of railway, or rutway, did exist in Ancient Greek and Roman times notably the ship trackway between Diolkos and the Isthmus of Corinth around 600 BC it would take several