Completed in 1848 , it was the first railway to reach the coastal port of Calais , while the Paris-Lille railway had reached Paris from Lille two years earlier .
Completed in 1848 it was the first railway to reach the coastal port of Calais . The Paris-Lille railway had reached Paris from Lille two years previously .

Are these two sentences paraphrases of each other?
A). no; B). yes;
B).