Steam locomotive Wikipedia
The first fullscale working railway steam locomotive, was the 3 ft (914 mm) gauge Coalbrookdale Locomotive, built by Trevithick in was constructed for the Coalbrookdale ironworks in Shropshire in the United Kingdom though no record of it working there has survived. On 21 February 1804, the first recorded steamhauled railway journey took place as another of Trevithick''s locomotives ...