Hazledine & Rastrick (Bridgnorth)

Hazledine and Rastrick was a Shropshire ironworks partnership at Bridgnorth, operated by John Hazledine and his foreman John Urpeth Rastrick, that built Richard Trevithick's 'Catch Me Who Can' locomotive in 1808 — the engine that Trevithick demonstrated on a circular track near Euston Square in London in the summer of 1808, giving paying passengers the world's first steam railway rides. The works thus contributed to what was arguably the earliest public demonstration of steam passenger railway operation, a quarter-century before the Liverpool and Manchester Railway made such travel commercially viable.

The partnership was significant for Rastrick's career as well as for Trevithick's demonstration: after working with Hazledine at Bridgnorth, Rastrick moved to Stourbridge where he entered partnership with James Foster to form Foster, Rastrick and Co. — the firm that built Agenoria for the Shutt End Railway and the Stourbridge Lion for North America in 1829. Rastrick subsequently served as one of the three judges at the 1829 Rainhill Trials, evaluating the competing locomotives including the products of his former partner's rival works. His trajectory from Trevithick's fabricator to Rainhill judge spans the entire formative decade of British locomotive development in a single career.