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Articles about steam locomotives (and locomotive types/classes) built before 1840. Of these, see info-box immediately below for the most well-known individual steam locomotives built before 1830 (listed by year).
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)
Southern Pacific Railroad Locomotive No. SP 2562: Steam 2-8-0 C-9 1906 built [2] 2009 NRHP Arizona Railway Museum, Chandler, Arizona: NRHP-listed in Maricopa County: AZ-02 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Locomotive 3759: Steam 4-8-4 3751 1928 built 1986 NRHP Kingman, Arizona: AZ-03 Southern Pacific Railroad Locomotive 2355: Steam 4-6-0 T ...
LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard is a 4-6-2 ("Pacific") steam locomotive built in 1938 for operation on the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at Doncaster Works to a design of Nigel Gresley. Its streamlined , wind tunnel tested [ 1 ] design allowed it to haul long distance express passenger services at high speeds.
Ogle Winston Link [1] (December 16, 1914 – January 30, 2001), known commonly as O. Winston Link, was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photography and sound recordings of the last days of steam locomotive railroading on the Norfolk and Western in the United States in the late 1950s.
ex-Great Western Railway No. 6833 Calcot Grange, a 4-6-0 Grange class steam locomotive, at Bristol Temple Meads railway station. The steam locomotives of British Railways were used by British Railways over the period 1948–1968. The vast majority of these were inherited from its four constituent companies, the "Big Four".
The first steam-powered locomotive on rails was built by Richard Trevithick in either 1802 or 1804. He built several locomotives, and although the success of his 1802 locomotive at Coalbrookdale is questioned, his 1804 locomotive ran near the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales successfully enough to haul five wagons of iron for nine miles, winning a wager.
The train occasionally runs between New Delhi and Alwar. [2] In 1998 it was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest steam locomotive in regular service. The Fairy Queen runs on the same route as the Palace on Wheels , the tourist train launched in 1982, and was awarded the National Tourism Award in 1999.