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Trevithick's Pen Y Darren

Trevithick's Pen Y Darren

The Pen Y Darren loco
On 21 February 1804, the world's first ever railway journey ran 9 miles from the ironworks at Penydarren to the Merthyr-Cardiff...
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The Pen Y Darren loco
On 21 February 1804, the world's first ever railway journey ran 9 miles from the ironworks at Penydarren to the Merthyr-Cardiff Canal, South Wales. It was to be several years before steam locomotion became commercially viable, meaning Richard Trevithick and not George Stephenson was the real father of the railways.
Against the backdrop of technical drawings of the loco is a scale model (front and side views) made by my father in law and a gift to me, with a portrait of Trevithick looking on.
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