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==The Coalbrookdale Company==
The Coalbrookdale Company was formed by Abraham Darby I in 1709 when he acquired the lease to the Coalbrookdale furnace. In 1768 his grandson Abraham Darby III began to produce the first cast-iron rails for railways, and in 1778 began casting parts for the world's first cast-iron bridge at Ironbridge which opened in 1780.<ref name=SH>[http://shropshirehistory.com/iron/coalbrookdale.htm Shropshire History]</ref>
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Cropped in of The Iron Bridge in 2014.jpg|The Iron Bridge
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In 1802 the Company made the high pressure boiler and engine for one of Richard Trevithick’s early locomotives, a predecessor of [[Catch Me Who Can]].<ref name=SH/> It also built a number of its own standard gauge steam locomotives of which Number 5, built in 1865, is preserved as an exhibit in Enginuity, one of the Ironbridge Gorge Museums based at the Coalbrookdale site.<ref name=IGT/>
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Trevithick_replica_20110531.jpg|Trevithick locomotive replica at Blists Hill Museum, Ironbridge in 2011.
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The Coalbrookdale Company was responsible for the manufacture of the ironwork of [[Victoria Bridge]] which was built between 1859 and 1861 and [[Albert Edward Bridge]]. It had previously produced the ironwork for [[Brooksmouth Bridge]], built in 1828, which can be seen from the SVR near [[Borle Viaduct]]. The 39ft diameter waterwheel wheel at [[Daniel's Mill]] was also cast by the Company circa 1855.
