Transportation of raw materials to the factories, and of the finished products from them was limited by the lack of transport costs where they had to go by road. This was not too severe in the case of light valuable materials textiles such as woollen and linen cloth, but in the case of cheap dense materials such as coal, could be a limiting factor on the viability of an industry. In contrast, freighting goods by water, whether on rivers or coastwise was much cheaper. Canals brought the first major change to transportation, and were usually built directly from the mines to the city centres, such as the famous Bridgewater Canal in Manchester. Tramways were also common using horses for locomotion, but then superseded by steam locomotives, as the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
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Some rivers, such as the River Thames, River Severn, and River Trent were naturally navigable, at least in their lower reaches. The Severn was well used for transporting finished goods from Coalbrookdale to markets both up- and down-stream, and was also the site of The Iron Bridge built in 1779, one of the first reliable crossings of the river in this part of the country. When many stone or wooden bridges were washed away in subsequent floods, the Iron Bridge survived intact, and was imitated at Buildwas by Thomas Telford as well as at Coalport, where the 1818 cast iron bridge still stands and takes vehicular traffic.
Other rivers were improved during the 17th and early 18th centuries, improving the transport links of towns such as Manchester, Wigan, Hereford, and Newbury in England. However these only provided links towards the coast, not across the heart of England. It was the canals which were to provide the vital links in the transport network.
In England, the roads of each parish were maintained by compulsory labour from the parishioners, six days per year. This proved inadequate in the case of certain heavily used roads, and from the 18th century (and in a few cases slightly earlier), statutory bodies of trustees began to be set up with power to borrow money to repair and improve roads, the loans being repaid from tolls collected from road users. In the 1750s there was a boom in creating new turnpike trusts with the result that by the end of the 18th century almost all main roads were turnpike roads. Each trust required an Act of Parliament, both on its initial creation and to renew it when the term granted by the Act expired.
Im not quite sure why or when but they used horses to pull the canal boats down the rivers/ canals.
The earliest railways were wagonways linking coal mines to nearby navigable rivers. These had wooden rails on which flanged wheels ran. In the late 1760s, cast iron plates were laid on top of the wooden rails, providing a more durable running surface. In the 1780s, a new system was developed, the plateway where the wagons had ordinary wheels (which could run on roads) and the flange was cast on to the track. This system proved unsatisfactory in the long term, because the cast-iron plates were liable to break, cast iron being weak under extension and brittle, and also because the track was liable to collect stones or other debris.
These railways were all horse-drawn, though in many cases their slope meant that the horse was not required to draw the wagon downhill; instead it was necessary to apply a brake to slow the descent. The wagon was emptied into a river barge (or keel or trow), and the horse drew the empty wagon back to the coal pit. Steam engine haulage was tried by Richard Trevithick on the Merthyr Tramroad from Penydarren to Abercynon in 1804, but proved unsatisfactory, partly because the engine was too heavy for the rails. It was only after the development of stronger rails made of rolled wrought iron in the 1820s that steam engine hauled long-distance railways became feasible. Like the early wagonways, these were (indeed are) edge railways, where the wheels of the engine and wagons (or carriages) are flanged. Thus followed the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and many more.
Cars were also made during the industrial revolution. In fact in the 1850s this was when the first mustange came out by the French but was latter sold to the Chinese.