Celebrating Richard Trevithick’s 250th birthday in the Severn Valley and Cornwall

THE 250th anniversary of the birth of the man‘who started it all’– Cornish mining engineer and inventor RichardTrevithick, who designed the world’s first railway locomotives – has been celebrated at the Severn Valley Railway and nearby Blists Hill VictorianTown.

Trevithick 200 volunteers have spent the past 15 years at Bridgnorth station building a replica of Trevithick’s Catch-Me-Who-Can which, in 1808, hauled a carriage around a ‘train set’-style circular track on a London site near the future Euston station known as ‘Richard Trevithick’s Steam Circus’, the public being charged