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- At Blists Hill victorian village, Ironbridge, there is a working replica of the first operational steam loco designed by Richard Trevithick in 1804, predating Stephensons 'Rocket' by some 25 yrs. Sadly it was very heavy and not reliable enough for its initial backers to continue with. Trevithick then continued to work on steam engines for the mines.
Absolutely beautiful! Thank you so much for bringing this back into existence so the world can still experience it as well as our children. In an age of powerful handheld computers/cameras/calculators, and phones it's more important than ever our children learn where all this started, and from the brilliant men and women from whence it came.
I find it rather spectacular to see this relic design, it really makes you appreciate just how advanced we got with steam technology by the time of the BR 9F class.
i think this invention one of the most important inventions in the human history
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Absolutely correct
I am agree with you. Steam locomotives are wonderful machines ever made. Steam train is more attractive than bullet train. I love this invention.
not in Norway lol
All of this comes from Europe, some attempts by Hero in Alexandria, and most of it from the mining industry. Steam engines pumped water from mines. They washed or to concentrate it. Animals hauled carts of ore on wooden rails. I imagine someone probably tried winching up a cart of ore and then hit upon developing a locomotive to replace the animals. Britain had thousands of windmills and water wheels for milling, Grinding and forging. Steam could replace those. The Doomsday book records one windmill per 50 families in Britain in 1066AD and some 76 water wheels on the Sein River Paris in the year around 960 AD
His road going steam vehicles were also a joy to behold. Used to frighten man and beast chuffing around lanes in the West Country. There’s a great story that he and some friends rode to a pub for a session, leaving the steam engine under cover. While they enjoyed a few, it burned the shed down.
Brilliant. The main problem with this and Trevithick's other early steam locos was that the cast iron rails were too brittle and weak to take the weight. In 1802 he made the road going Puffing Devil, then 2 years later the London Steam Carriage, both of which have been replicated and are on You Tube. Trevithick's locos were built to haul coal not passengers. Must go to Blist Hill and Camborne sometime!
I have given two presentations to students at my Alma Mater, Alfred State College regarding the industrial revolution, and I praised Trevithick for his foresight in forging ahead in the area of high pressure steam, going against the status quo of James Watt. I was a student there at age 54 in 2003, and hit upon the idea when writing an essay about steam for my final exam.
Your 66 years old?
I imagine Watt was concerned by safety. The Reverend sterling invented his air cycled sterling engine to overcome the boiler explosions and scalding injuries of badly built boilers.
That's a brilliant story. This tale just gets better and better. many thanks for your comment.
CJ
@CaptBubble
if you go to Blists Hill you will enjoy lots of toys. Also go down the road to Ironbridge, to see the very first built iron bridge. The whole area is one great living museum.
I am astonished how easily that engine can reverse direction. With such a large flywheel and gearing arrangement, I thought it would have to be manually reversed by man-handling the flywheel? Tervethick was a brilliant mechanic and so far ahead of his time.
My lecturer in college was Kenneth Trevithick. As with his ancestor he was a free thinker and loved innovation. He allowed us to put water (steam) injection on a bare chassiss Riley to test the fuel efficiency, which was extraordinary (51 mpg). After one evening class four of us drove it three miles to the nearest pub (no seats, no body, no fear). When we returned to the college we were stopped by the police and they made us push it the two miles back. Ken was waiting doing a slow teapot dance.
Pay attention to the format of both the rails and the wheels.
We checked with the National Railway Museum, and there is no evidence that the original was completed or that it ever ran.
The run at Pen=y=Darren was the first documented one.
Notice that the rails are grooved and the engine wheels ride in the grove!
Like tram lines.
@@rattywoof5259 The rails are flat plates, and the wheels run on the flat surface.
There is a flange on each rail, which stops the wheels running off.
Cheers to the UK for preserving this marvelous heritage. We stand in awe, Sirs!
Its a replica. The 1803 original was turned back into a stationary engine, scrapped not much later.
Essas primeiras Locomotivas eram de uma engenharia inimagináveis. Rio RJ Brasil
@cjb12121
Hm, most bridges Brunel designed were not made out of iron. The Maidenhead Railway Bridge was made out of brick. Also, most bridges and viaducts on the GWR were made partly out of timber. Those in Devon in particular.
The Brunel designed viaduct in Ivybridge is an example. Only the high pillars (104 feet) were masonry, whereas the bridge/viaduct itself was timber. It carried the heavy trains from 1848 to 1892, and was replaced by the current brick viaduct.
No iron bridge.
@grizzleybearz282004
not sure.
Apparently this loco was too heavy to run over the first wooden bridges. Remember this was the very first and engineers such as Brunel had not yet designed iron bridges to take such machines. The Rocket was the first true passenger train. This was the equivalent of the first aircraft or spacecraft.
The story is fascinating.. Google it.
Technically speaking the first true passenger locomotive was Locomotion no1, as on its opening day it hauled both people and coal at the same time. Mostly it ran coal though and the horses took people until the steam takeover of 1833
One of the three great inventions in human history beside the wheel and the printing press with movable letters.
@grizzleybearz282004
thanks for your comments. Blists Hill is a very interesting place to visit and experience the village life of the times.
We can all learn a lot from history... we all take things too much for granted.
On February 21, 1804, Trevithick’s pioneering engine hauled 10 tons of iron and 70 men nearly ten miles from Penydarren, Methyr Tydfil South Wales at a speed of five miles-per-hour, winning the railway’s owner a 500 guinea bet into the bargain.
it did not run first in iron bridge at all ! ..the engine in this video is of cause a replica Lets have some recognition for the town where the engine was built and first ran anywhere in the world on a regular service please
+Yonni Bengurion ... did it offer a regular service, or did it just do that one run?
the 1802 and 1804 engines didn't run regularly, in fact i think they were withdrawn and converted to stationary engines after 1 or 2 runs
@@knight_bracher4290 There is no evidence that the Ironbridge loco was ever completed.
@@malcolmrichards8922 no, but they at least made a start
@WHOisHE15
surprising isn't it ? This was the very first steam loco and pre-dates the Rocket by some 23 yrs. Check it out on google.
Blists Hill and Ironbridge are incorrect in claiming the first steam locomotive. Historical evidence indicates that the first railway locomotive was designed by Trevithick and that it ran at Pen y Darren in South Wales. We mustn't forget his road vehicles. See Trevithick, The Basics, by Anthony Dawson, TH-cam. Excellent piece of work.
@lexander5
The driver is a retired guy who does it for fun...along with all the other volunteers You should go and see it, ... after all, what else do train drivers do.. they can hardly stop off at the pub.
Oddly enough, I learnt about Richard Trevithick, from the Poldark novels! He was a very clever man, but not a publicist, as Stevenson was.
Cheers, Ironbridge is already high up on my list!
I find it quite amusing to think that Napoleon could have taken a train ride. For me they represent so different times of history.
Such simple but wonderful design.
The first EVER steam train was a 0-2-2 steam engine (no tender) and it was only used for an exhibit called "Catch me who can?" and the train was scrapped afterwards
no this is the first steam train
+Dan Man10 Gaming ... literally fifteen seconds of googling and checking your facts could have stopped you looking foolish here. CMWC was Trevithick's FOURTH locomotive. There were two others (including the almost as famous Pen Y Daren loco) between this and that.
Incidentally, it's not a train unless there's at least two parts to it. Otherwise it's either a locomotive (a power unit that doesn't carry any passengers or load itself), a railcar (a power unit that also carries passengers and/or cargo), or a carriage / wagon (an unpowered vehicle)...
I'm generally superised the first locomotive is still alive.
The one shown here is a replica built in the 1990s. There are some examples of early locomotives that have survived, the oldest being "Puffing Billy" which was originally constructed in 1813 and now lives in the London Science Museum.
You mean genuinely
It's a replica! However, the original Rocket in in a museum!
Beautiful
it had a top speed of about eight kilometers a hour but this was pretty fast back then
@WHOisHE15
yep.. this pre-dates the Rocket by some 25 yrs. Check it out on Google
It’s ashame to know that this wasn’t actually what the first loco in the world looked like we actually don’t know what it looked like at all
There is a replica of Trevithick's 'FIRST', engine, which ran before this! at Swansea museum. The real loco ran on the 'Pen-Y-Darren', tram road in Merthyr, and is world wide regarded as the first locomotive to run in rails! READ YOUR HISTORY BOOKS GUYS! There was a little engine he designed just before which ran on a circle of track in London at an exibition called 'Catch me who can'.
Trevethick stole the idea of a high compression steam engine from Yank Oliver Evans, who made working ones in the 1790's and even 1780's
This engine (the original, not the replica) was made in 1802 for Coalbrookedale, the pen-y-darren engine came in 1804, this is the engine the swansea replica is based off. another engine was built in 1805. Trevithick built his final engine in 1808 called 'catch me who can'
His very first steam engine ran in his birthplace - Camborne in Cornwall - on Christmas Eve 1801. The Penn-y-Darren engine first ran in 1803 some 27 years before Stephenson’s Rocket.
@lauraandy
ooops.. sorry. my keyboard keeps making spelin mistake.
Very nice place.
Excellent video, likes from me
been there - seen that. It's magnificent!!
Look at the wheels--no flanges! Looks like the track is angle iron with the vertical flange on the inside.
yes, indeed. the type of track some early engines worked on was L shaped with their wheels (Flangless) running on the _ part, that track was called L shape plateway. latter on, C.1820s it was inverted with the flange wheels running on 'edge' rails
Yes, I remember those pictures of the loco in school. And particularly Trevithichs loco vas in my imagination just fantastic. Also Eriksons novelty was fine. The Rocket was not so much of exiting as Trevithichs loco. All the gears and everything. You know!?
William Miller: That Riley's MPG doesn't mean much without knowing the original's under similar conditions, I'm afraid. There's few cars of that class where you can't eke out 50mpg, with full bodywork, by simply driving very very carefully... (and, in some cases, by lengthening the gearing, should it be significantly underdriven)
amazing it still runs!
Its a well maintained replica
It's a replica!
Amazed that people dont read the facts in front of their eyes, it was stated numerous times that its a replica
Outstanding!
Now that is steampunk!!
Somewhere I have a newspaper clipping showing us gathered around that Riley with Ken before we removed the body. I will post it when I find it. To make sure we were paying attention he would grab an ignition lead whilst the motor was running then casually lean on the wing. 20,000 volts sure is an attention getter.
Government should help this gentleman in expansion of his track, and supply him with few cars n couple of platform so can can earn while keeping the tradition alive.....
No Dan, I just rolled over the 70 mark. I am writing an historical document regarding steam and the industrial revolution, many younger people do not know the importance.
Any single-cylinder engine will easily reverse through the valve linkage. You have to watch you don't quarter-lock, though. (like standing on one bicycle pedal at bottom without the other foot on the other pedal-no way to start off)
At that point you'd have to move the flywheel, or the engine some bit.
Nice. I would have liked to see the other side of the locomotive, the one with the gears ...
I live next to Ironbridge, and Madely, I live in Sutton Hill, South Gate,
You spelled madeley wrong its Madeley :)
I pull up to mah woman with that thing, and I be all like
"Ay gurl, wanna ride?"
its a shame that they didn't leave the old rail lines in place so historical societies could use them to run their trains on , it was sad seeing this amazing machine being limited in how far it could travel , the driver didn't look to impressed either
Over 132 years later ans engine that is 100mph Flying Scotsman
1826 just initial stage of railroad. Rail track is not in order even though the train could run without derailment. Great.
Is this the real thing or a replica?
A replica.
I would love to know if R,.T. had the cylinder steam jacketed by design or whether it was just convenient to have that layout. It certainly didn`t come into general use until the next century - and then only in a few instances i.e. Andre Chapelon. Am I correct?
Shame there’s not more track
This was genesis... to all them TGVs, ICEs, Shinkansens and Acelas.
14 people preferred rob stephenson's rocket
What about the Planet?
Dec. 3, 2003 brought big celebrations but two months less one day brought nothing for the birth of self propulsion. At least in the USA.
If the people never created this locomotive we would not have TTTE
let me guess it the old tomb thumb lel it looks hard to use because the mechanic and the large wheels
It was one of his many steam locomotive's he made of which one blew up when he was on break not sure the name of that locomotive though
+Chris&forrest funvideos ... I think you're thinking of one of his steam coaches, which actually ran on the road (before an infamous bit of political lobbying saw the highway locomotive act introduced, with its red flags and 2mph speed limit...), at a good 12mph (or even 25 depending on who you believe), and were increasingly popular at least until some numpty of a driver joined his passengers in the pub they'd paused next to, got drunk, and forgot to damp down the fire. Result, one sadly predictable but no less destructive boiler explosion.
Of his four locos i dont recall one blowing up. You might be thinking of Matthew Murrays 1812 locomotive “Salamanca”, the first truly successful loco, which blew up when someone fiddled with the controls
Can't they at least give it a circle so he doesn't have to reverse it every ten seconds?
the english all the time the first
This is fact.
No
Looks like something from Terry Pratchett
Some call it "top dead center" (TDC).
I am guessing he was burried after the video was taken...
I want that guys job...
Gosh your missed Bill
puppy monkey baby is the most disturbing youtube commercial I have ever seen
Why in the hell would you mention that here!?!?!? I mean seriously Unless your saying this locomotive somehow reminds you of that abombination to which i ask HOW!?!
Hey! Do mainline steam excursions with it! Pfffft hahhahahaha, imagine that though!!!
LOL maybe it would need to be in a double header with a class 47!
hi pang i am big admirer of the oldest steam locomotives could u send me a photograph of this magnificent vintage steam machine Thank u
I think the driver is original.
He isn't a worker anymore
Why was the danish flag on the locomotiv??
@CheekiBreekiPolski Ok, thanks and have a good day and Merry chirstmas
Was built in 1802 actually but hey who`s counting?
Nope, the first steam engine was built by Trevithick and was made in 1807 so this engine would of been made later like 1810
first Trevithick rail locomotive in 1802, last 1808
I would put wheels on this and drive it around
So how would you turn a corner then?
@@johngledhill2970 I would install somekind of steering system; as if I had to put wheels on it I would figure out how to get somekind of steering system. Easier said then done; but if there's a will there's a way!
@@low-pressurearea3246 It's already ON wheels.
@@bingola45 my bad I meant Tires. I don't think those wheels would support road driving very well lol
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Put couplers on it & see if it will pull a stack train. LOL
Why a duck?
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the most expensive thing this guy paid for was his hat for this video. this steam engine means nothing, it only looks cute.