QUESTION: Why is George Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 regarded as the first steam locomotive? What about Richard Trevithick’s Penydarren? Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 is significant because ...

Lardner, who in a lecture at the Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle, had spoken of George Stephenson as the “Father of the Locomotive”.

Copy of the World's First Steam Railway Locomotive, built by the Coalbrookdale Co., 26 years before Stephenson's RocketThe Coalbrookdale Company built the world's first steam railway locomotive to ...

The Rocket was designed and built by George Stephenson with the help of his ... to find the best locomotive engine for a railway line that was being built to serve these two English cities.

Copy of the World's First Steam Railway Locomotive, built by the Coalbrookdale Co., 26 years before Stephenson's RocketThe Coalbrookdale Company built the world's first steam railway locomotive to ...