User:Tompw/steam timeline


 * 1803: Pen-y-darren, 0-4-0. First steam locomotive. Also first on smooth rails.
 * 1808: Catch me who can, 0-4-0. Exhibted in London
 * 1812: Wylam Dilly, ??
 * 1812-14: Puffing Billy, 0-4-0. First with twin cylinders, which were vertical and located outside the boiler. Drove wheel via pivoted beams (liek a beam engine). Had double-flanged wheels.
 * 1812: Salamanca. First commercially successful steam locomotive. Was rack-and-pinion drive, and single-flanged running wheels.
 * 1814: Blücher, 0-4-0. First to use unaided single-flanged wheels for traction.
 * 1825: Locomotion No 1, 0-4-0. Hauled the first train on the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
 * 1829:
 * Rainhill trials
 * Rocket, 0-2-2. First to use a multi-tube boiler, and first to use a blast pipe. Had inclined cylinders, later changed to horizontal.
 * 1830: Planet, 2-2-0. First locomotive to employ inside cylinders.