Victorian Transport & Communication

The most surprising thing I learned about the Victorians traveling to me was the fact that the Queen Victoria was not all for the new technology and going 40 miles an hour made her feel scared and requested the driver to go slower. To read that some thought that speed could endanger the human race and in today’s time a lot of people has died in many accidents due to speed in cars or other transportation’s. I was shocked to learn that what was considered fast with trains in the Victorian Era was 80 miles an hour but in today’s time trains can go over 100+ miles an hour. And the fact that we have more and better ways to travel to one-side of the world or just across to the other side of town. During the Victorian Era riding horses and carriages was only transportation but now it is for fun.