An army of unpaid volunteers are behind a Cornwall town's annual festival celebrating the famous inventor Richard Trevithick. It will be the 41st Trevithick Day with crowds gathering to see the ...

Vintage steam engines took over the streets of Camborne yesterday as locals celebrated Trevithick Day 2025. The annual celebration, which celebrated its 41st year, celebrates the famous inventor ...

Michael Mosley, Cassie Newland and Mark Miodownik describe the scientific achievements of Richard Trevithick. In 1801 he built the first steam locomotive. An explanation of mechanics of this ...

Festivities kick off at 9.30am with a parade by the Kernow Pipes & Drums from Trelowarren Street to the main stage, setting the tone for the day.

built by the Coalbrookdale Co., 26 years before Stephenson's RocketThe Coalbrookdale Company built the world's first steam railway locomotive to a design by Richard Trevithick - 26 years before ...

A historic steam locomotive has returned to Darlington ... It will also showcase Richard Trevithick's Penydarren, John Buddle and William Chapman's Steam Elephant, alongside George Stephenson's ...

A stained glass window in memory of Richard Trevithick, the famous Cornish inventor ... drawings of Trevithick's great inventions: the tramroad locomotive 1803, the Cornish pumping engine, the steam ...

Other engines will demonstrate stone crushing and road haulage. This year’s event coincides with Trevithick Day, a celebration of Richard Trevithick, who constructed the world's first steam ...

The locomotive ... a steam engine could run on smooth rails. It was to be several years before steam locomotion became commercially viable, but there was no denying the fact that it was Trevithick ...