Transport

• Background for teachers
  Historical background to this topic, with special emphasis on West Sussex.

• Topic summary
  A list of the Activities in this topic, with a brief summary of the learning objectives and source material for each.

• Introducing transport
  Historical background and digitised original sources giving an overview of the numerous forms of transport available to Victorian people, including images, maps and statistics.

• Travel times
  Historical background and digitised original sources giving an insight into the difficulties of travelling on foot, by cart and by coach and horses across West Sussex.

• Coaches and trains
  An insight into how and why steam trains replaced coach and horses. Includes audio and video clips, plus timetables.

• Railway debate
  Historical background and digitised original sources raising the issue of whether the coming of the railways was a good or bad thing. Features case studies of particular people and their jobs.