Catch me who can

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Trevithick's steam circus on which the locomotive Catch me who Can ran

Catch me who can was the second steam locomotive created by Richard Trevithick. It used a steam engine and was built in 1808. Its fastest speed was 19km per hour. It was displayed near Euston Station, London.

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The wheels are in a 0-4-0 pattern, and the boiler was as high as a human, making it's total height 1.5 people high. the weight, however, wore the track out (it weighed a ton) and Trevithick was forced to scrap it.

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Pre-1830 steam locomotives v • d • e
Pen-y-darren (1804) • Catch Me Who Can (1808) • Puffing Billy (1812) • Wylam Dilly (1812) • The Salamanca (1812) • Blücher (1814) • Locomotion No. 1 (1825) • Novelty, Sans Pareil, Rocket, Perseverance (all 1829)
See also: Rainhill trials • History of rail transport in Great Britain to 1830