Complex sentence: Nonetheless the railway transit was also under threat, and a fare reduction in December 1841 did little to stave off the approaching doom: on 21 February 1842 the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway opened its railway (to Haymarket).
Split into simpler sentences: Nonetheless the railway transit was also under threat, and a fare reduction in December 1841 did little to stave off the approaching doom. On 21 February 1842 the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway (to Haymarket).