Puffing Billy Steam Locomotive 1813
Illustration from Home Words by Rev Charles Bullock published in 1889 Info from wiki: Puffing Billy is the world's oldest surviving steam locomotive,[1][2] constructed in 1813–14 by engineer William Hedley, enginewright Jonathan Forster and blacksmith Timothy Hackworth for Christopher Blackett, the owner of Wylam Colliery near Newcastle upon Tyne, in the United Kingdom. It was the first commercial adhesion steam locomotive, employed to haul coal chaldron wagons from the mine at Wylam to the docks at Lemington-on-Tyne in Northumberland.
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