Talk:Timeline of railway history

First International Railway Line?
When was the first international (cross border) railway line opened? I've done some research, but I cannot come up with an answer. Does anybody know?
 * Vienna - Brno (listed in the article as 1839) is international now, but wasn't when it was built.
 * Strasbourg - Basel (listed in Ligne Strasbourg-Ville - Saint-Louis (Bâle) as 18th October 1840) is international, but I have read that there was an international connection before this.

P.S. Strasbourg - Basel was the first railway line in Switzerland, but it is not normally counted as the first Swiss line, because it only had one station in )

Contradictions
Two different railways - between late 1700s and early 1800s - are each called the first public one. Well, which is it?

William Murdock's part of the timeline is 1784. Go to his page and you see he died in 1769. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:569:77A8:D300:393E:77D8:2426:F723 (talk) 11:38, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

USSR lend lease
Someone referenced wrong numbers. They included the locomotives AND the parts (engines). Including parts gives you wildly different numbers. The sentence in the article only references entire locomotives, and the correct figures should be referenced.

-G

Missing enabling technology
Needs to have the advances in iron and steel making along with the high pressure steam engine added in order to get a better picture of the development of railway technology.Phmoreno (talk) 11:37, 30 April 2016 (UTC)