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by nickt 16 days ago
At the time, Liverpool and Manchester were proper cities, and while smaller towns, the railway that opened five years before this one that connected Stockton and Darlington clearly operated a similar model of moving goods and passengers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_and_Darlington_Railwa...

So I’d argue that they were moving first!