Catch Me Who Can is a steam locomotive built in 1808 by the Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick, mounted on a circular demonstration track he built near what is now Euston Square in London. Trevithick charged members of the public a shilling to ride behind the locomotive as it circled the track, making it one of the earliest public demonstrations of steam powered rail travel anywhere in the world. The venture closed after only a few weeks when a rail broke and the locomotive derailed, and Trevithick largely abandoned locomotive development afterward, but the demonstration is remembered as an important early proof that steam traction on rails could work.
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was constructed during 1808
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Catch Me Who Can was the fourth and last steam railway locomotive created by the inventor and mining engineer Richard Trevithick.
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