The first railways were built for use in mines and ironworks. A Cornish
engineer called Richard Trevithick built the first steam-powered locomotive.
It first ran in South Wales in 1804. Another mining engineer, George
Stephenson, built the first passenger railway from Stockton to Darlington, in
the north east of England. It was opened in 1825. The steam engine Locomotion traveled
at 24kph over a distance of 65 kilometres.
