[TR] Daily Telegraph - TR4 Buyers guide

[spook01]

and now on to "The Great Eastern"!
Best,
Ray


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Marr" <mmarr at notwires.com>
To: "Frank Fisher" <yellowtr3 at yahoo.com>; "Wayne Lee" 
<wayne at motorcarriage.com>
Cc: <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: [TR] Daily Telegraph - TR4 Buyers guide


>> of England had and still have the greatest craftsman. the north was where 
>> the
>> worlds industrial revolution started. the first steam engine/train ran 
>> from
>> Liverpool to Manchester. Stevenson's Rocket.
>
>
> Sorry, Frank, I have to correct your steam locomotive history, since I am 
> a steam geek as well as a TR geek.  It si generally recognized that 
> Richard Trevithick built the first successful steam locomotive, which ran 
> on a tramway at the ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil in 1804.  George 
> Stephenson's first locomotive was the "Blucher", which he built in 1814. 
> His first railway was actually the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which 
> opened in 1825.  The L&M followed in 1830.  The Rocket was built around 
> the same time and was important because it was the first "modern" 
> locomotive, incoporating a fire-tube boiler, induced draft furnace using a 
> blast pipe to provide the draft, and driving cylinders that were at about 
> a 40 degree angle to horizontal, rather than vertical like all its 
> predecessors.  The Rocket was built for the Rainhill Trials, which was a 
> competiton to select the most efficient loco for the new L&M railway.  The 
> Rocket won and pretty much all successful locos built thereafter 
> incorporated its features.
>
> George Stephenson became the first President of the Institution of 
> Mechanical Engineers (of which I am a proud Member), founded in 1847.  His 
> son, Robert, was also president of the same institution.  Geo. Stephenson 
> also defined the standard track gauge as 4ft 8 1/2 inches, which is still 
> the standard in most parts of the world today.
>
> Don't get me started on Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who was the greatest 
> engineer of the Victorian age, in my opinion...
>
> Mike
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