Old Transport Vs Modern transport System

Today we have a many different means of getting comfortably and quickly from one place to another that we perhaps do not value some of these means as much as we ought . In the early days of man's development he had to walk or to run if he desired to get from one place to another. Then after many years, he discovered that he could sit on the back of an animal if he moved on land, and in this way he sat at ease while the animals is laboured for him. The animal used naturally differed in different countries. A very important development came when men discovered that they could move across water. The object that carried them over. the water in those far off days could not be called a ship as we understand that word today. Poor as the methods may have been, however, they did let men reach place that would be otherwise cut off by water. For thousand of years there was no development beyond this . There existed no quick means of movement. Life was simple and hard.

But things do not stand still. We must ,we are told, move onward or move back, and men seem always to have desired to move forward. No matter what point they reach, they always see something more calling them onward. Out of the desire for a better material life came good roads, big ship. railway , motor cars and planes. So used are we to wonderful planes and to powerful motor cars that we are in danger of under valuing the railway, that rather out of date method of moving across the country. Few people in these use the railway for pleasure . They use it because it is the useful mean of getting somewhere reasonably quickly. If a fried tell us that he is going somewhere by plane we are immediately interested. If he tells us that he is bought a handsome new car and is going to such and such a place we are likely to be interested . If he is going overseas in one of the large and modern ship all his friend will want to see him off. Let him go to rail, however, and no one will take the smallest interest in him. Railway are all right in their way, but they are not "news".

Yet the railway has played an important part in the greatness of our country. Railways have quite a long history if we go back to the times when the trains were led by horses. But they have a history of only a hundred or so years when we speak of the railway in it's modern form. The present heavy railway , with great engines and iron or steel railway lines, was developed in this country, and from here it was soon sent to most parts of the world. The English built railway were found not only in this country but in other countries overseas, and in a remarkably short time engines were carrying trains full of peoples and goods at rate as high as those used today.

These rate do not seem very remarkable today, used as we are hearing of planes moving at 500 or a thousand miles an hour, but they seemed very remarkable to people a hundred years ago. There was no motor cars and the horses are used as the quickest, safest and best means of getting about on roads that were for the most part very bad indeed. Quite small distances often look days to cover.

Here the little overview of ancient transport system and modern transport system.