was the first steam locomotive to run on rails in 1804. It operated on a tramway in South Wales and demonstrated the potential of steam power. Trevithick’s Catch Me Who Can (1808) was designed ...

On 21 February 1804 ... first ever railway journey ran 9 miles from the ironworks at Penydarren to the Merthyr-Cardiff Canal, South Wales, reaching speeds of nearly five miles an hour. The ...