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Revision as of 17:46, 24 November 2016

Catch Me Who Can at Bridgnorth in 2014
1808 drawing of Catch Me Who Can

The original Catch Me Who Can was an early steam locomotive built in Bridgnorth by Richard Trevithick in 1808.

It was Trevithick's fourth locomotive and the world's first locomotive to haul fare-paying passengers, at a "Steam circus" in Bloomsbury, London.

Trevithick 200 was formed in 2008 to celebrate the bicentenary by building a replica of this locomotive. Construction is taking place at Bridgnorth. The Catch Me Who Can news page has many pictures of progress since 2010.

Although still incomplete, the locomotive visited the Dutch national railway museum in Utrecht in late summer 2014 as part of an exhibition to mark the 175th anniversary of railways in Holland. The 2014 photograph shows the locomotive just before departure.

See also

Steam Locomotives

Links

Catch Me Who can web site