railways were unpopular because people wasted there money just to go on the train when they could of taken a bus which was much cheaper
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They were new technology, promising speeds unimaginable for the time. Coaching companies saw the death of their trade.
Victorian people can't travel now because they are all dead. Victorian people used to travel by stage coach, later by train and bicycle. Right at the end of the Victorian era, a few wealthy people had the first cars (automobiles).
Queen Victoria, for whom the Victorian era was named.
colonies.
No. Many country landowners thought they ruined the environment. Horse-breeders and coach operators feared competition from the railways. Poets and philosophers declared that they were ugly and unnatural.
Some of the Victorian era figures of speech are epiphany, bathos, synecdoche, trope,and allusion. The Victorian era had several figures of speech that are still used today. One figure of speech was "fit as a fiddle." Another was " wring their necks."