Penydarren Locomotive - Carfarthfa Park, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.
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An exact replica of Richard Trevithick's 1804 Penydarren Locomotive. The first locomotive in the World to pull a load along rails. The Replica Loco stands in front of the Cyfarthfa Park Museum, Penydarren, Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales.
Waymark Code: WMQ7J3
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/04/2016
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Penydarren, near Merthyr Tydfil was the site where the World's first Steam Engine, pulled a train along rails. This non working exact replica, is located at the former home of the Iron Master, who bought the Penydarren locomotive to use in his Iron Works.
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The Penydarren loco.
"On 21 February 1804, the world's first ever railway journey ran 9 miles from the ironworks at Penydarren to the Merthyr-Cardiff Canal, South Wales. It was to be several years before steam locomotion became commercially viable, meaning Richard Trevithick and not George Stephenson was the real father of the railways." Text Source; (
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