Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe how passengers were conveyed on the first trains and suggest what passengers might have said about travelling by train and a template to structure and write a diary to describe how passengers travelled on the first trains.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore and record how passengers travelled by train in the past with similar journeys today.

This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to explore and illustrate how travel has changed since the past through the invention and development of trains from steam to electric technologies. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.