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What was the first country in the Western world to construct a railway?

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What was the first country in the Western world to construct a railway?

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1720: A railroad is reportedly used in the construction of the French fortress at Louisburg, Nova Scotia (Brown, Robert R., Canada's Earliest Railway Lines, Railway & Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin #78, October 1949).

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