Hazledine & Rastrick (Bridgnorth)

About

Hazledine & Rastrick was a Shropshire ironworks at Bridgnorth, operated by John Hazledine and his foreman John Urpeth Rastrick in the early 1800s. The works built Trevithick's 'Catch Me Who Can' locomotive in 1808, the engine that demonstrated public passenger steam haulage on a circular track in London (Trevithick London Demonstration).

Rastrick continued his locomotive-building career after Hazledine's death by going into partnership with James Foster of Stourbridge to form Foster, Rastrick & Co., which built the Stourbridge Lion (the first locomotive in North America) in 1828–1829.