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LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard is officially the fastest steam locomotive, reaching 126 mph (203 km/h) on 3 July 1938. LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman was the first steam locomotive to officially reach 100 mph (160 km/h), on 30 November 1934. 41 018 climbing the Schiefe Ebene with 01 1066 as pusher locomotive (video 34.4 MB)
The steam locomotive, Tom Thumb, was designed and built by Peter Cooper for the B&O, the first American-built steam locomotive. Trials of the locomotive began on the B&O that year. 1830 – The Liverpool & Manchester Railway opened. It marked the beginning of the first steam passenger service which was locomotive-hauled and did not use animal ...
The first steam locomotive in South Korea (Korea at the time) was the Moga (Mogul) 2-6-0, which first ran on 9 September 1899 on the Gyeong-In Line. Other South Korean steam locomotive classes include the Sata, Pureo, Ame, Sig, Mika (USRA Heavy Mikado), Pasi (USRA Light Pacific), Hyeogi (Narrow gauge), Class 901, Mateo, Sori and Tou. Used until ...
This success led to Stephenson establishing his company as the pre-eminent builder of steam locomotives for railways in Great Britain and Ireland, the United States, and much of Europe. [34]: 24–30 [35] The first public railway which used only steam locomotives, all the time, was Liverpool and Manchester Railway, built in 1830.
Arturo Caprotti, [1] [3] Italy, invented rotating cam valve gear for locomotives, the Caprotti valve gear; André Chapelon, [2] [3] France, built the most powerful steam locomotives in Europe; Nicholas Cugnot, France, steam coach; Alfred de Glehn, [1] [2] [3] France, first compound locomotive with 4 cylinders in 1894
Trevithick's steam circus on which the locomotive Catch Me Who Can ran Salamanca. The first steam railway locomotive was introduced by Richard Trevithick in 1804. [12] He was the first engineer to build a successful high-pressure stationary steam engine, in 1799. He followed this with a road going steam carriage in 1801.
1784 – William Murdoch built a working model of a steam locomotive carriage in Redruth, England. [15] 1789 - The pedal powered tricycle was invented by two Frenchmen, named Blanchard and Maguier. 1790s – Canal Mania, an intense period of canal building in England and Wales.
Locomotion No. 1 (originally named Active) is an early steam locomotive that was built in 1825 by the pioneering railway engineers George and Robert Stephenson at their manufacturing firm, Robert Stephenson and Company. It became the first steam locomotive to haul a passenger-carrying train on a public railway, the Stockton and Darlington ...