The first Railway passenger carriage named Experiment, pulled by Locomotion No. 1, the first train on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 27 September 1825
Illustration from Cassell's Century Edition History of England, pub circa 1901. Info from wiki: On 27 September 1825, Locomotion hauled the first train on the Stockton and Darlington Railway in north-east England.[4] During this maiden trip, which was driven by George Stephenson himself, the train consisted of Locomotion, eleven wagons of coal, the carriage ‘’Experiment’’, and a further 20 wagons of passengers, guests, and workmen – reportedly, around 300 tickets had been sold but roughly twice as many people were believed to have been aboard. The train, which had an estimated weight of 80 tonnes and a length of 122 meters, reported reaching peak speeds of up to (24mph), and took around two hours to complete the first 14km of the journey to Darlington, but was slowed by a derailed wagon and a blocked feed pump valve, thus only achieving an average speed of (8mph)
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