Header 1 Earliest Locomotives and Railways
Look at the picture and information cards. Cut out and stick the information cards in chronological order on the timeline.
William Hedley's Puffing Billy was used to pull coal Richard Trevithick's unnamed locomotive carried 10 George Stephenson's Locomotion No.1 was the first wagons. It was a very reliable engine and was in tons of iron over a distance of 16km at the Pen-y- locomotive to run on a passenger carrying line. use for over 50 years. Darren Ironworks in Wales.
Thomas Savery's steam engine was used to pump George Stephenson's Rocket was the winner of the The first railroads were in the coal mines. Horses water out of the coal mines. Rainhill Trials. pulled carts of coal along these tracks.
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William Hedley's Puffing Billy was used to pull coal Richard Trevithick's unnamed locomotive carried 10 George Stephenson's Locomotion No.1 was the first wagons. It was a very reliable engine and was in tons of iron over a distance of 16km at the Pen-y- locomotive to run on a passenger carrying line. use for over 50 years. Darren Ironworks in Wales.
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Thomas Savery's steam engine was used to pump George Stephenson's Rocket was the winner of the The first railroads were in the coal mines. Horses water out of the coal mines. Rainhill Trials. pulled carts of coal along these tracks.
History | LKS2 | The Railways | The Earliest Locomotives and Railways | Lesson 1 Header 1 Earliest Locomotives and Railways Look at the picture and information cards. Can you match each picture to its description and then stick them in chronological order on the timeline?
The first railroads were in the coal mines. Horses Thomas Savery's steam engine was used to pump George Stephenson's Rocket was the winner of pulled carts of coal along these tracks. water out of the coal mines. the Rainhill Trials.
William Hedley's Puffing Billy was used to pull Richard Trevithick's unnamed locomotive carried George Stephenson's Locomotion No.1 was the coal wagons. It was a very reliable engine and 10 tons of iron over a distance of 16km at the first locomotive to run on a passenger carrying was in use for over 50 years. Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales. line.
History | LKS2 | The Railways | The Earliest Locomotives and Railways | Lesson 1 Earliest Locomotives and Railways Answers
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William Hedley's Puffing Billy was used to pull coal Richard Trevithick's unnamed locomotive carried 10 George Stephenson's Locomotion No.1 was the first wagons. It was a very reliable engine and was in tons of iron over a distance of 16km at the Pen-y- locomotive to run on a passenger carrying line. use for over 50 years. Darren Ironworks in Wales.
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Thomas Savery's steam engine was used to pump George Stephenson's Rocket was the winner of the The first railroads were in the coal mines. Horses water out of the coal mines. Rainhill Trials. pulled carts of coal along these tracks.
History | LKS2 | The Railways | The Earliest Locomotives and Railways | Lesson 1 Header 1 Earliest Locomotives and Railways Look at the picture cards provided. Can you use the knowledge you have learnt in the lesson and your own research to write a description for each one, and then put the pictures and descriptions in chronological order on the timeline? Use the checklist below to help you decide what information you could include in your descriptions: • who made it • where it first travelled • what technology it used • what it was first used for • any other details
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The first railroads in Britain were in the 18th century coal mines, where horses pulled mine carts from the pits to the factories along wooden tracks. Later, in 1807, the first railway to carry passengers was opened. It was called the Oystermouth Railway and horses pulled carriages along tracks from Swansea to Oystermouth in South Wales.
Thomas Savery (1650 – 1715) invented and made one of the first ever steam engines in 1698. This engine was used to pump water out of the coal mines, but unfortunately it had a number of problems and did not work as well as everyone hoped. However, this early steam engine design helped other engineers and inventors to develop more successful engines in the future.
Richard Trevithick's unnamed locomotive carried 10 tons of iron over a distance of 16km at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
History | LKS2 | The Railways | The Earliest Locomotives and Railways | Lesson 1 Earliest Locomotives and Railways Answers
William Hedley's Puffing Billy was used to pull coal wagons. It was a very reliable engine and was in use for over 50 years.
George Stephenson's Locomotion No.1 was the first locomotive to run on a passenger carrying line.
George Stephenson's Rocket was the winner of the Rainhill Trials. It could travel up to 28 miles per hour.
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