FIRST - Locomotive, Telford Central Station, Queensway, Telford, Shropshire, England, UK
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A full scale replica of the Trevithick locomotive in the inside station area of Telford Central station in Telford, the first locomotive in the world.
Waymark Code: WME4XX
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/04/2012
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A full scale replica of the Trevithick locomotive in the inside station area of Telford Central station in Telford.
"1803 Locomotive
Richard Trevithick
This is a full scale replica of the first steam railway
locomotive in the world, which preceded Stephenson's
'rocket' by 26 years. It was designed by Richard Trevithick
(1771-1833). and was built near Ironbridge in Shropshire
by the Coalbrookdale Company in the winter of 1802/3.
A near identical engine ran the following year at
Pen-y-Darren.
The replica was built by Task Undertakings, a Manpower
Services Commission project in Birmingham, under the
guidance of Allen Gulliver, to drawings
made for the Ironbridge Gorge Museum
by Steward Johnson."
With thanks to the sign on the model.
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