A locomotive was named after Josiah Wedgwood and ran on the Churnet Valley Railway.

The locomotive only ran three trips before it was abandoned.

The first steam locomotive was built by Richard Trevithick ; it first ran on 21 February 1804, although it was some years before steam locomotive design became economically practical.

The first clockwork ( spring-drive ) and live steam locomotives ran until out of power, with no way for the operator to stop and restart the locomotive or vary its speed.

The locomotive ran on gauge tracks, and was similar to Pet, which is preserved in the National Railway Museum at York.

In 1981 it was the oldest surviving operable steam locomotive in the world when it ran under its own power again.

* 1801 – Richard Trevithick ran a full-sized steam ' road locomotive ' on the road in Camborne, England

In 1979, work started on the 7. 25 " gauge ' Riverside ' railway which ran initially with an electric engine and later with a steam locomotive.

In 1804, Richard Trevithick, in the first recorded use of self propelled steam power on a railway, ran a high-pressure steam locomotive with smooth wheels, on an ' L ' section plateway near Merthyr Tydfil, but it was found more expensive than horses.

The city was in the path of a steam locomotive line that ran between Detroit and Port Huron in the late 19th century.

Once # 8888 was slowed to a speed of 11 miles an hour, a CSX employee, trainmaster Jon Hosfeld, ran alongside the train and climbed aboard, shutting down the locomotive.

The first cog railway was the Middleton Railway between Middleton and Leeds in West Yorkshire, England, UK, where the first commercial steam locomotive, Salamanca, ran in 1812.

Track was not used – the boiler was filled with water, the burner lit, and when steam was being produced, the locomotive was placed on the floor and allowed to run until either the water or fuel ran out or the engine crashed into the furniture.

This was the famous steam locomotive, Puffing Billy which first ran in 1813 and is now preserved at the Science Museum in London.

In this accident at Armagh, a portion of a train was detached from the locomotive on a steep gradient and ran away, killing 80 people.

Cooper invented the steam locomotive and ran for President on the " Greenback " ticket.

This locomotive ran on the Pine Creek Railroad from around 1955 through 2002, when she was taken out of service for boiler work.

The first tank locomotive was the Novelty that ran at the Rainhill Trials in 1829.

This locomotive later ran as an 0-6-0TT after being equipped with a tender.

Using a leased locomotive and cars the Aurora Branch ran passenger and freight trains from Aurora to Chicago via its own line from Aurora to Turner Junction and one of the G & CU's two tracks east from there to Chicago.

The last train ran on 24 July 1993 with P class locomotive hauling an FSH set to Leongatha and back to Melbourne.

Between 1974 and 1977, the line was upgraded to passenger-carrying standard and the first passenger train ran on 1 June 1977, hauled by the ' Nord ' - a French locomotive and ' 1178 ' - another Swedish tank engine, pulling a set of ex-BR electrical multiple unit coaches owned by the Southern Electric Group.

The locomotive ( The Lancashire Fusilier ) ran round its train using the loop at Sharpness.

In 1899, Mile-a-Minute Murphy became the first man to ride his bicycle a mile in under a minute, which he did by drafting a locomotive at New York's Long Island.

Early electrical models used a three-rail system with the wheels resting on a metal track with metal sleepers that conducted power and a middle rail which provided power to a skid under the locomotive.

* 1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D. C.

* September 15 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world, at 150 years old, when it operates under its own power outside Washington, DC.

He tested the remaining girders by driving a locomotive across them, and found that they deflected by several inches under the moving load.

In 1882, under the name Lima Machine Works, the industry built the first Shay-geared locomotive.

A project is well under way to recreate a long-lost type of locomotive ( a London, Brighton and South Coast Railway H2 Class Atlantic ) from a few surviving parts.

Gresley was sure that steam could do the job equally well and with a decent fare-paying load behind the locomotive and so, following trials in 1935 with one of Gresley's A3 Pacifics No. 2750 Papyrus, which recorded a new maximum of and completed the journey in under four hours, the LNER authorised Gresley to produce a streamlined development of the A3.

* September 15, 1981: The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when it runs under its own power outside Washington, DC.

Since the company operates in two countries, CN maintains some corporate distinction by having its U. S. lines incorporated under the Grand Trunk Corporation for legal purposes, however the entire company in both Canada and the U. S. operates under CN, as can be seen in its locomotive and rail car repainting programs.

A Climax locomotive is a type of geared steam locomotive in which the two steam cylinders are attached to a transmission located under the center of the boiler.

First, the guard would use the brake van's brakes to assist with keeping the train under control on downwards gradients and whenever he could see the locomotive's crew was attempting to slow the train ; second, the brakes were left set on at a low setting all the time to ensure the loose chain couplings often used between unfitted cars were kept taut, to minimise the risk of snapped coupling chains from the locomotive " snatching " or jerking, which was particularly problematic in the days of steam locomotives.

It was under such circumstances that his first locomotive, christened Old Ironsides, was completed and tried on the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad on November 23, 1832.

A replica locomotive is under construction and this will carry the name ' Lyn '.

In 1836 Wolverton was chosen as the site of the locomotive repair shop at the midpoint of the London and Birmingham Railway then under construction.

From 1965 onwards the locomotive, still owned by Brush, was under contract with British Railways so that operation and repair would be handled by them, with only major repairs being handed back to the builder.

In fact, backing any locomotive without a trailing axle was restricted to under twenty miles per hour or less.

However, any available funds were devoted to electrification programme, and this marked the end of the first period under Chief Mechanical Engineer ( CME ) Richard Maunsell when the Southern Railway led the field in steam locomotive design.

It was at the suggestion of Elliot that the Southern's express passenger locomotives should be named, representing positive publicity for the railway, whilst distinctive locomotive liveries and well-known posters were created under his direction.

The check valves on this steam locomotive are located under the small dome between the chimney and the main dome