Mobility for the Mainland: The Contribution of the Railway to the Emergence of the Age of Speed
Journal: Journals & Books Hosting (International Knowledge Sharing Platform)
Year: 2013

Railway -not only as a means of transport, but also as a technological invention and a social construction -was mainly responsible for the diffusion of the Industrial Environment.With the Railways broadly disseminated in space, the natural environment was innovated.In England, especially, the transition was gradual, surpassing the previous slow rates of the canals transportation.By contrast, in developing areas such as the Balkans, the gap between pre-industrial and railway transport was enormou