How old is the first train?

Question

How old is the first train?

Answer 1

The first public railway on iron track was in Surrey, England and was horse-drawn, 1803.  

In 1803 Richard Trevithick was building a steam locomotive for railway use but there is conflicting evidence that it ever ran. An 1804 Trevithick locomotive seems to have worked, Whether this was the 1803 one I don't know.   A full scale replica of one of them has been built and it does run. This was for another railway in England but many miles away from Surrey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevithick

Several attempts at building steam locomotives over the next 20 years were not usually a success but in 1825 George Stephenson drove Locomotion No1 over a 40km track with six wagons full of passengers.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotion_...

Four years later his "Rocket" locomotive was run at the Rainhill trials to demonstrate the best locomotive.    Stephensons "Rocket", which was much more advanced than

Locomotion No 1 emerged as the winner.  Nearly all steam locomotives from then on used the features demonstrated by "Rocket" including the blast pipe, steam dome, horizontal boiler and non-vertical cylinders.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenson%...

The oldest locomotive in existence is "Puffing Billy"  which was built in 1813 by William Hedley and was used on a coal mine railway until 1862.  It has two vertical cylinders driving beams  which connected to cranks that were geared to the driving wheels.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffing_Bil...

Answer 2

It would be 200 years old! but the actual 1st train has long gone, it was built in 1802 by Richard Trevithick at Coalbrookdale - Iron Bridge.There a replica of it at The Iron Bridge Gorge Museums - Blists Hill victorian Town. I have attached a link to their web page and the interactive map, if you click on number 46 the details will come up about the 1st train and it's replica.

http://www.ironbridge.org.uk/our_attract...

I hope this helps.

Joolz

Answer 3

First train built in 1852 by George Stephenson

How old would it be in 2007 ? That would be 155 years old

See attached link