Catch Me Who Can Catch Me Who Can Catch Me Who Can was the fourth and last steam railway locomotive created by the inventor and mining engineer Richard Trevithick. It was an evolution of three earlier locomotives which had been built for Coalbrookdale, Penydarren ironworks and Wylam colliery. Demonstration runs began in July 1808, and "Catch Me Who Can" was the first locomotive in the world to haul fare-paying passengers. "Catch Me Who Can" was constructed during 1808 by the engineers John Urpeth Rastrick and John Hazledine at their foundry in Bridgnorth, England. It was demonstrated to the public at Trevithick's "Steam Circus", a
History of rail transport in Great Britain to 1830 public, on 21 February 1804 it successfully carried 10 tons of iron, 5 wagons and 70 men a distance of from Penydarren to Abercynon in 4 hours and 5 minutes, an average speed of nearly . This locomotive proved that steam traction was a viable proposition, although the use of the locomotive was quickly abandoned as it was too heavy for the primitive plateway track. A second locomotive, built for the Wylam colliery, also broke the track. Trevithick built a third locomotive in 1808, "Catch Me Who Can", which ran on a temporary demonstration railway in Bloomsbury, London. Members of