Meet Locomotion No. 1, the train that changed travel

In 1825, steam trains were still a strange new idea. Then on September 27, Locomotion No. 1 set off on a journey that would change transportation forever.

George Stephenson takes the controls

George Stephenson drove the locomotive, carrying passengers behind him. It became the first steam locomotive on a public rail line.

One train transforms the future

One train turned steam power into the future of travel. What had been an experimental technology became the foundation of modern transportation networks that would soon span continents.