The Iron Horses Locomotives
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- My name is Richard Trevithick, and I am the first man on building the world's first railway locomotive
- My locomotive managed to pull ten tons of iron and 70 passengers for 14.5km in Merthyr, South Wales
- What's your name, and what are you best known for?
- And how did you managed to build the Blücher, and why?
- I took my chance of making money too, so I decided I was going to build my first locomotive and I named it the Blücher.
- It pulls coal very slowly at the local mine
- I first intended to use horses to pull carts full of coal along the track, but Stephenson persuaded me to use his steam locomotives instead
- And this was the first public transport system, thanks to him.
- It pulls 12 wagons full of coal, a coach and 21 passenger cars
- What was your first idea for building this?
- Why did you build the locomotive?
- There was a race between three other steam locomotives, the Sans Pareil, the Novelty and the Perseverance, ours was the Rocket I build it with my son Robert.
- The purpose of the race was to see if any engineer could design a safe and reliable engine to use on the railway, and we managed to win.
- THIS WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THAT!!!
- NO THIS WASN'T SUPPOSED.
- I Duke of Wellington was just a guest of honour
- The worst is that William Huskisson died because he was run over by the locomotive, and after that the locomotive didn't want to work anymore.
- By December, dozens of trains were carrying passengers, coal, timber, cattle, cheep and pigs between two cities.
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