Catch Me Who Can was Richard Trevithick’s 1808 locomotive demonstration in London, created after his earlier high-pressure steam and railway experiments.
Trevithick had already demonstrated steam locomotion on roads and at Penydarren before bringing a locomotive exhibition to a public audience near Euston Road.
The engine ran on a circular track inside an enclosed exhibition ground.
Visitors paid admission and could pay extra to ride, making the event part engineering demonstration and part public spectacle.
The locomotive used Trevithick’s compact high-pressure steam principles and was intended to show that steam traction could move people rapidly without horses.
Accounts of exact speeds and passenger numbers vary in later retellings, so TransitSatellite should use ranges or attributed claims rather than one unsupported precise figure.
The track itself remained a weak point. Broken rails and mechanical trouble disrupted operations.
The exhibition closed after only a short period and did not establish a lasting railway business.
The original locomotive does not survive, and modern images are reconstructions based on incomplete evidence.
For TransitSatellite, Catch Me Who Can should be treated as an important public demonstration between Trevithick’s earlier industrial experiments and the later commercially successful railways—not as the first complete passenger railway system.