<Li> c. 1594 -- The first overground railway line in England may have been a wooden - railed , horse - drawn tramroad which was built at Prescot , near Liverpool , around 1600 and possibly as early as 1594 . Owned by Philip Layton , the line carried coal from a pit near Prescot Hall to a terminus about half a mile away . </Li>
<Li> c. 1594 -- The first overground railway line in England may have been a wooden - railed , horse - drawn tramroad which was built at Prescot , near Liverpool , around 1600 and possibly as early as 1594 . Owned by Philip Layton , the line carried coal from a pit near Prescot Hall to a terminus about half a mile away . </Li>
who built the first train in the world
who built the first train in the world
Philip Layton
Philip Layton