Replica of the Penydarren Steam Locomotive
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2010
- This is a working replica of the world's first steam locomotive, Penydarren.
It is a copy of the pioneering tram road locomotive built in 1803-04 by the Cornishman Richard Trevithick for the Penydarren ironworks, Merthyr Tydfil.
On 21 February 1804, 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! This was the first recorded journey made by a steam locomotive on rails, and would initiate a world-wide revolution in transport in the nineteenth century.
On Sunday 13th June 2010 it was fired up and ran on a short length of track.
Shot on a Nikon D90 with a 18mm-105mm zoom lens. - Авто та транспорт
Don't forget this was the first operable steam locomotive.
The earliest steam locomotive designs didn't care about speed, only about pulling ability. They were being built to outdo horses in hauling things like coal and minerals, which aren't perishable or time sensitive at all. As long as you can haul enough, even a walking pace is fine.
@@TugIronChief As you said, that was twenty years later, by which point industrial and metallurgical technology had improved enough to start making faster locomotives practical. But during that intervening period, several people after Trevithick (who abandoned his locomotive efforts after "Catch Me Who Can") built a whole bunch of slow-moving locomotives for coal mines and such. These worked quite well in dragging heavy trains of wagons from the mines to the docks nearby and hauling the empties back. Such locomotives often get left out of many discussions of locomotive history, but they were important in establishing the first steam-powered industrial railways. A couple of examples are "Puffing Billy" at the Science Museum in London and the so-called "Steam Elephant" which has been reproduced at the Beamish Museum.
This was the first. (from the Wikipedia article on Richard Trevithick - Amid great interest from the public, on 21 February 1804 it successfully carried 10 tons of iron, 5 wagons and 70 men the full distance in 4 hours and 5 minutes, an average speed of approximately 2.4 mph.)
In 1802, Trevithick took out a patent for his high-pressure steam engine. To prove his ideas, he built a stationary engine at the Coalbrookdale Company's works in Shropshire in 1802, forcing water to a measured height to measure the work done. The engine ran at forty piston strokes a minute, with an unprecedented boiler pressure of 145 psi.
A drawing of the Coalbrookdale locomotive from the Science Museum.
The Coalbrookdale company then built a rail locomotive for him, but little is known about it, including whether or not it actually ran. To date, the only known information about it comes from a drawing preserved at the Science Museum, London, together with a letter written by Trevithick to his friend, Davies Giddy. The design incorporated a single horizontal cylinder enclosed in a return-flue boiler. A flywheel drove the wheels on one side through spur gears, and the axles were mounted directly on the boiler, with no frame.[10] On the drawing, the piston-rod, guide-bars and cross-head are located directly above the firebox door, thus making the engine extremely dangerous to fire while moving.[11] Furthermore, the drawing indicates that the locomotive ran on a plateway with a track gauge of 3 ft (914 mm).
This is the drawing used as the basis of all images and replicas of the later "Pen-y-darren" locomotive, as no plans for that locomotive have survived.
I had no idea there was even a replica of the Penydarren
@toby070 Interesting note: If you want to see the original, it's boiler is preserved in the Science Museum, London.
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On February 21, 1804, Trevithick’s pioneering engine hauled 10 tons of iron and 70 men nearly ten miles from Penydarren, Methyr Tydfil South Wales at a speed of five miles-per-hour, winning the railway’s owner a 500 guinea bet into the bargain.
it did not run first in iron bridge at all ! ..the engine in this video is of cause a replica Lets have some recognition for the town where the engine was built and first ran anywhere in the world on a regular service please
@toby070 Yeah, it's quite good. You do a really good job on it.
@toby070 true point. bt all in all wonderful engine
@toby070 Middle of the second room. You can't miss it, it's in the very centre of the room.
There is some debate amoungst my fellow Welsh people that the original Penydarren locomotive did not look like this? I am open to debate over this.
@Captain Dildoface the books are wrong, the drawings this replica were made from are not the Penmydaren locomotive, the line had a very tight tunnel that this replica would not even fit through. There is a recent video on UA-cam about Trevithicks locomotives by A. Dawson, that explains newer research.
correction coalbrookdale locomotive was defo first in 1802.
Could i use this for a possible video about this engine?
didnt terevithick make the coldbrookdale locomotive first in 1802?!
this one in video was 1804.
Like the first car or plane this looked nothing at all like what it became
In 1000 years
Locomotion was built in 1825 Cullen Maher
Is this what the real engine looked like?
Waleswales01 Yes, it's a working replica.
hmmm it he used the wheel on thte left as an extra driving wheel it would go faster
faster = more revs second wheel more grip
why no chuffing?
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You're confused. Locomotion was built in 1825.