GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Richard Trevithick in England was the first to use a steam carriage on a railway; in 1803 he built a steam locomotive that in February 1804 made a successful run on a horsecar route in Wales.

Detailed explanation-2: -George Stephenson, (born June 9, 1781, Wylam, Northumberland, England-died August 12, 1848, Chesterfield, Derbyshire), English engineer and principal inventor of the railroad locomotive.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1804, at the Penydarren Ironworks in Wales, Trevithick built the first-ever steam locomotive to run along a track. It pulled five cars loaded with ten tons of iron and 70 ironworkers about nine miles, and chugging along at about five miles per hour.