Earliest surviving passenger rail vehicle in World

This is the earliest surviving real vehicle in the World and it dates from c1810.

It was used to transport the directors of the Poldice to Portreath Railway in Cornwall, which was built in 1809. Note the seat for the driver to hold the horse's reins.

The tramway connected the copper mines at Scorrier and Poldice to Portreath Harbour on the Atlantic North Coast of Cornwall.

The tramway is now a cycle path which my son and I cycled along to the Poldice Mine this morning.

The vehicle is displayed on the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro on loan appropriately enough from the Trevithick Society.