User:Tompw/steam timeline

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  • 1803: Pen-y-darren, 0-4-0. First steam locomotive. [1] Also first on smooth rails.[2]
  • 1808: Catch me who can, 0-4-0. Exhibted in London
  • 1812: Wylam Dilly, ??
  • 1812-14: Puffing Billy, 0-4-0. First with twin cylinders, which were vertical and located outside the boiler. Drove wheel via pivoted beams (liek a beam engine). Had double-flanged wheels.
  • 1812: The Salamanca, 2-2-2. First commercially successful steam locomotive. Was rack-and-pinion drive, and single-flanged running wheels. [3]
  • 1814: Blücher, 0-4-0. First to use unaided single-flanged wheels for traction.
  • 1825: Locomotion No 1, 0-4-0. Hauled the first train on the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
  • 1829:
    • Rainhill trials
    • Rocket, 0-2-2. First to use a multi-tube boiler, and first to use a blast pipe. Had inclined cylinders, later changed to horizontal.
  • 1830: Planet, 2-2-0. First locomotive to employ inside cylinders.


  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ Robert Kirkby, Richard Shelton et. al. (October 1990). Engineering in History. New York: Dover Publications Inc., pp 274 - 275. ISBN 0-486-26412-2. 
  3. ^ Hamilton Ellis (1968). The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Railways. The Hamlyn Publishing Group, pp.20.