Who made the first train in the world?

Question

Who made the first train in the world?

Answer 1

The first PRACTICAL train in the world (and the first real steam one) was George Stephenson's "Rocket", which ran in 1829. Earlier trains were too clumsy and pathetic to be considered REAL trains. It is currently "preserved" in London's Science Museum.

Answer 2

Mr Loco. Motive

Answer 3

Lionel

Answer 4

Not meeeeeee :)

Answer 5

john jervis

Answer 6

A man by the name of Benjamin French had been involved in the laying of lines on this branch and a few years after its opening realised the potential of starting a passenger carrying service between Swansea and Mumbles. The company agreed for him to do this and he paid them £20 a year to carry out this service. On 25th March, 1807, THE FIRST PASSENGER RAILWAY IN THE WORLD WAS BORN.

"Little did Mr. French realise that within a few years other lines would be following in his footsteps criss-crossing the whole country and a little while later emulated all over the world."

In February 1807, Benjamin French agreed:

"To pay the company twenty pounds per annum for permission to run a Wagon or Wagons on the Tram Road for one year from 25th March next for the conveyance of Passengers."

We are talking here about a small number of wealthy tourists travelling in a horse drawn carriage, but there is no doubt that this was the first regular Passenger railway service in the world.

The line drew most of its revenue from the minerals it was built to carry, but what began as a typical industrial tramway was now something unique.

The Swansea and Mumbles Railway ran from the town of Swansea to the neighbouring village of Mumbles. It was built, in 1807_an industrial tram-road on which horses pulled waggon-loads of limestone and coal. In 1807 it became unique as the line on which the first regular rail passenger service in the world was begun. Mumbles lost its industrial character and trading pretensions with the passing years and became more purely a resort and residential area. As freight all but disappeared, traffic meant passengers: commuters, trippers and excursionists. The first saddle tanks arrived in 1878, and their load was often a heavy one over the ensuing years. Electrification came in 1929 in the shape of a fleet of large, efficient tramcars. The Railway was closed in 1960.

The original terminus was a point on the shore opposite Oystermouth Castle.

In about 1812, the line was extended westward to quarries somewhere in Southend.

This track was laid, without permission, across the courtyard of the Dunns Mansion, which then stood on the site of today's Oystermouth Square (1999).



Construction had begun by September 1st 1804. The "rails" were "L" shaped tramplates mounted on rough stone blocks. Culverts were cut, fences erected and a new sea wall built at Norton. The company ran no services on the line at all. Users carried their own cargoes in their own wagons, and paid a toll. The only employees were a "check man" who collected the tolls at the gate at either end of the line, and Elizabeth Evans who had to clean sand from the traniplates! Easily the largest traffic in these early years was in limestone. Some coal from Ynis, Clyne Valley, was carried. A branch line seems to have been built at Brynmill to service Benjamin Rose's cornmill there.

Answer 7

Caligula