User:Colin Douglas Howell/Galleries/Steam locomotives of the Rainhill Trials
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The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was the world's first railway to use steam locomotives to carry passenger traffic. In October 1829, as the new railway was nearing completion, it held a competition known as the Rainhill Trials to judge the performance of locomotive designs. The winner (and indeed the only locomotive to complete the trials) was Robert Stephenson's Rocket. Its revolutionary design became the foundation for almost all steam locomotives that followed.
These are the steam locomotives which participated in the trials.