3) So this locomotive which you see here which bears the date 1813 is obviously of a very early type indeed, although the picture of it must have been taken many years after 1813. But whatever the circumstances in which it was taken, this photograph does show you what our early steam locomotives were like.

As a matter of fact, colliery locomotives like this were in use many years before the first passengers travelled by rail. Indeed, it was not until 1825 that the world’s first passenger railway opened in the North of England, between Stockton and Darlington.

Things have moved fast since locomotives like this were in use.