Trevithick came to Coalbrookdale from Cornwall because he believed the Coalbrookdale ironmasters owned one of the few companies who could build a boiler that could withstand much higher pressures ...

As Matthew Trevithick sat on the floor of a 6-by-7-foot concrete cell in a prison high on a hill outside Tehran, he fixated on one question: How many days would he have to endure, alone and afraid ...

China and Japan have won the high-speed train race. With bullet trains crisscrossing the Asian supercontinent, it has made the grandfather of rail, the UK look as slow as the rocket. Why does the UK ...

A stained glass window in memory of Richard Trevithick, the famous Cornish inventor and engineer who was known as the 'father of the locomotive engine', was presented to Westminster Abbey by the ...

Also know as the Cornish boiler. Early boilers were kettle shaped with a fire underneath. Trevithick's boiler was tubular and had a fire tube within it thus increasing the heating surface and ...

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What about Richard Trevithick’s Penydarren? Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 is significant because it was the first steam locomotive to haul a passenger train on a public railway. It operated on ...

FLINT, MI - There’s no safer bet than penciling in Kendyl Smith’s name as a Miss Basketball candidate next year — even as the front runner perhaps. The Flint Powers Catholic junior guard shows on a ...

People with the surname Trevithick can get three months of free train travel to celebrate 220 years since the first train journey. Virgin Trains Ticketing is looking for relatives of railway ...

On February 21, 1804, the world’s first ever railway journey took place in South Wales, thanks to railway pioneer Richard Trevithick, who was born in Cornwall. 220 years on, Virgin Trains ...