User:Tompw/steam timeline
- 1803: Pen-y-darren, 0-4-0. First steam locomotive. [http://www.swehs.co.uk/docs/news10su.html] Also first on smooth rails.{{cite book |last=Robert Kirkby, Richard Shelton et. al. |title=Engineering in History |year=1990 |date=October 1990 |publisher=Dover Publications Inc.|location=New York |pages=pp 274 - 275|isbn=0-486-26412-2 }}
- 1808: Catch me who can, 0-4-0. Exhibted in London
- 1812: Wylam Dilly, ??
- 1812-14: Puffing Billy, 0-4-0. First with twin cylinders, which were vertical and located outside the boiler. Drove wheel via pivoted beams (liek a beam engine). Had double-flanged wheels.
- 1812: Salamanca. First commercially successful steam locomotive. Was rack-and-pinion drive, and single-flanged running wheels. {{cite book |title=The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Railways |author=Hamilton Ellis |publisher=The Hamlyn Publishing Group |year=1968 |pages=20}}
- 1814: Blücher, 0-4-0. First to use unaided single-flanged wheels for traction.
- 1825: Locomotion No 1, 0-4-0. Hauled the first train on the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
- 1829:
- Rainhill trials
- Rocket, 0-2-2. First to use a multi-tube boiler, and first to use a blast pipe. Had inclined cylinders, later changed to horizontal.
- 1830: Planet, 2-2-0. First locomotive to employ inside cylinders.