The Swansea and Mumbles Railway in South…
October 1807 CE
In 1804 the British Parliament approved the laying of a railway line between Swansea and Oystermouth in South Wales, for transportation of quarried materials to and from the Swansea Canal and the harbor at the mouth of the River Tawe, and later that year the first tracks were laid.
At this stage, the railway is known as the Oystermouth Railway and controlled by the Committee of the Company of Proprietors of the Oystermouth Railway or Tramroad Company, which includes many prominent citizens of Swansea, including the copper and coal magnate John Morris.