Look back at 200 years of UK train travel: from cheap seats in roofless ‘cattle trucks’ to 6-course meals in First Class

THIS year marks 200 years of train travel in the UK, and if you think your commute is bad these days… you’ll be horrified at what the railways used to be like.

The first train journey in the UK happened on September 27, 1825, with George Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 trundling along the Stockton and Darlington Railway.

AlamyThe UK’s first train journey took place along the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825[/caption] GettyTrain travel in the early 1900s wasn’t glamorous...