Catalogue of Early Steam Locomotives

 

Principle Sources

Rolt, The Railway Revolution, 1960

Sinclair, Angus, The Development of the Locomotive Engine

Thurston, A History of the Growth of the Steam Engine, 1878

Wescott, The British Railway Locomotive, 1958

William Wright, Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company, 1899

White, John H., Jr., Early American Locomotives

 

 

Early Locomotives - Britain

 

                                                           

Cugnot's Locomotive, 1771.       William Murdock's Locomotive, 1784.         Trevethick's Locomotive, 1803.

 

 

 

                                                                                         

Murray's Locomotive, 1812.            William Brunton's Locomotive, 1813.          Hedley's "Puffing Billy", 1813

 

                                                                              

Hedley's Engine,  1815.                       Stephenson's Engine, 1815.       Stephenson's Engine "Locomotion" 1825.

 

 

                                                                                                  

Hackworth's "Royal George", 1827.    Stephenson's "Witch", 1828.              Stephenson's "Rocket", 1829.

 

 

                                                                                                   

 

Stephenson's "Rocket", 1830.    Stephenson's "Northumbrian", 1830.       Stephenson's "George Stephenson", 1831.   

 

 

                                                            

Braithwaite/Ericsson's "Novelty", 1829.    Hackworth's "Sanspareil", 1829.         Hackworth's "Globe", 1830.

 

 

                                                                                                 

Stockton and Darlington, 1832-36.                   Stephenson's Eclipse, 1832                Neath Abbey's Perseverance, 1832

 

                                                                                        

Richard Roberts;, 1833.                    Forrester's "Vauxhall", 1834.         Forrester's 0-6-0, 1834.

 

 

                                                                                    

Tayleur's 0-6-0, 1835                   Stephenson's 0-4-2, 1834.                   Bury's Locomotive, 1835.

 

 

                                                                                    

Bury's 2-2-0, 1837                                   Norris 4-2-0, 1839                   Stephenson's "North Star", 1837.

 

 

 

Early Locomotives - America

                                                                          

The "Stourbridge Lion", 1829.            Horatio AllenŐs "America".                Peter Cooper's Tom Thumb, 1830.

 

 

                                                                            

The "Best Friend", 1830.                The "West Point", 1830-1831           The "South Carolina", 1831.

 

 

                                                                

The "DeWitt Clinton", 1831.              The "John Bull", 1831.                   The "Old Ironsides", 1832.

 

 

                                                                                  

The "Atlantic", 1832.                         Baldwin Engine, 1833.                     Fenton, Murray And Jackson, 1834.

 

 

                                                                               

Baldwin's "Lancaster", 1834         The "George Washington", 1836          Cambell's Locomotive, 1836

 

 

                                                                                             

Eastwick & Harrison "Hercules", 1836     The "Gowan & Marx", 1839

 

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