Sentence examples for first locomotive from inspiring English sources

On 16 September 1825, with the stationary engines in place, the first locomotive, Locomotion No. 1, left the works, and the following day it was advertised that the railway would open on 27 September 1825.

It is the first locomotive to use a PEMFC power plant in China.

The New Castle, built by Richard Trevithick in 1803, the first locomotive to do actual work.

(Having being born in the village in northeast England where George and Robert Stephenson invented the world's first locomotive makes me biased here, but no matter).

In this post he designed the Experiment (1832), the first locomotive to have four of its six wheels mounted on a swiveling truck.

On one of these lines, the Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norristown, the inventor Matthias Baldwin had operated his first locomotive in 1832.

On 21 February 1804, the world's first locomotive-hauled railway journey took place as Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren ironworks, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales.

Although horse-drawn railways already existed elsewhere, and a few industrial sites already used primitive steam locomotives for bulk haulage, the L&M was the first locomotive-hauled railway to connect two major cities, and the first to provide a scheduled passenger service.

The GWR's first locomotives were specified by Isambard Kingdom Brunel but proved unsatisfactory.

An order for 57 GG1s was placed in November 1934 and the first locomotives were delivered in April 1935.

The first locomotives to be targeted were the non-standard pilot batch of 20, now numbered 47401-47420.