On the day of the Trials, some 15,000 people came along to see the race of the locomotives. During the race, the Rocket reached speeds of 24mph during the 20 laps of the course. This was due to ...

Copy of the World's First Steam Railway Locomotive, built by the Coalbrookdale ... by Richard Trevithick - 26 years before Stephenson's 'Rocket'. Trevithick came to Coalbrookdale from Cornwall ...