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When Was The First Steam Train Made And Who Made It?

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    The worlds first steam train was built at the Penydarren
    Ironworks,Merthyr Tydfil,WALES,UK in 1803 - 1804 by Richard Trevithick
    and Welsh Craftsmen employed at the Ironworks,some 20 odd years before
    Stephensons Rocket,it made it's run on 21st Feb.1804 over a distance of
    nine and a half miles..

    More here :-

    www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
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    Railbuff 

    answered 4 months ago

      George Stephenson's locomotive "Blucher" was the first in 1814
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      Solentjay 

      answered 7 months ago

      The worlds first steam train was built at the Penydarren Ironworks,Merthyr Tydfil,WALES,UK in 1803 - 1804 by Richard Trevithick and Welsh Craftsmen employed at the Ironworks,some 20 odd years before Stephensons Rocket,it made it's run on 21st Feb.1804 over a distance of nine and a half miles..
      More here :-
      http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RApenydarren.htm
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      Railbuff

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