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Of world importance, the original locomotive made the first recorded journey by steam on rails, and would initiate a revolution in transport in the nineteenth century.
On 21 February 1804, the original of this locomotive ran on the nine-mile tram road from Penydarren to Abercynon, hauling a load of ten tons of iron and about seventy people who hitched an unofficial ride!
Richard Trevithick’s steam locomotive | Museum Wales
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