Catch me who can
Catch me who can (English for 'catch me, who can') was the name of the fourth steam locomotive built by Richard Trevithick and the first commercially used locomotive for passenger operations . The vehicle was in the Hazeldine foundry in 1808 Bridgnorth ( Shropshire manufactured) and weighed eight tons.
The locomotive ran at a top speed of 19 km / h on a small circular orbit in Torrington Square in London , not far from what is now Euston Station . For a shilling , the audience could sit in an attached car and be pulled around. Trevithick wanted to prove that traveling by train was faster than on horseback . Catch me who can was more of a circus attraction than a real means of local transport.
The company had to be terminated after only two months because the locomotive was too heavy for the relatively easily fragile cast iron rails and the public interest remained modest.