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apr 13, 1803 - First Full Scale Locomotive

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Richard Trevithick built the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive. The world's first locomotive-hauled railway journey took place on 21 February 1804, when Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks, in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.

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apr 13, 1803
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~ 222 years ago

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