built by the Coalbrookdale Co., 26 years before Stephenson's RocketThe Coalbrookdale Company built the world's first steam railway locomotive to a design by Richard Trevithick - 26 years before ...

A stained glass window in memory of Richard Trevithick, the famous Cornish inventor and engineer who was known as the 'father of the locomotive engine', was presented to Westminster Abbey by the ...

The locomotive managed to haul ten tons of iron ... but there was no denying the fact that it was Trevithick and not George Stephenson who was the real father of the railways.

In 1801 Richard Trevithick built the first steam locomotive. In the years after this George Stephenson developed the ‘iron road’ using steam locomotives to pull waggons on rails. The first ...

Prior to this the steam locomotive had started a revolution. Richard Trevithick’s design had a boiler but this was removed to make the internal combustion engine. The German inventor Nicklaus ...