Wylam Dilly
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Wylam Dilly is the second oldest surviving
Waggonway to transport coal.[4] The four driving wheels are connected by a train of spur wheels driven by a central crankshaft.[5]
Because it proved too heavy for the
In 1822, the locomotive was temporarily mounted on a keel and served as the engine for a steam paddlewheeler that ferried strikebreakers on the River Tyne.[4][9]
Until a thorough examination of Wylam Dilly and Puffing Billy was undertaken in 2008, it was thought that Wylam Dilly was the oldest surviving steam locomotive in the world. The research results, released in late 2008, showed that Wylam Dilly was built after Puffing Billy, incorporating improvements on the locomotive's design that were not present in Puffing Billy.[1]
References
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- ^ a b "Puffing Billy becomes world's oldest surviving locomotive". The Railway Magazine. Vol. 154, no. 1, 292. December 2008. p. 9.
- ^ a b "Pre-1825 British Locomotives". himedo.net. Archived from the original on 13 May 2012.
- ^ "Locomotive: Wylam Dilly - Graces Guide".
- ^ a b "Wylam WagGon Way". Heddon on the Wall. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 26 June 2007.
- ISBN 071100725X.
- ^ Science Museum (1958). The British railway locomotive 1803-1850. London: Science Museum. p. 4.
- ^ Casserley
- ^ "Making the Modern World - Icons of Invention - Technology - 1750-1820".
- ^ "Wylam Dilly and the Keelmen". Working Class Movement Library. Retrieved 26 June 2006.
Bibliography
- Smith, George Turner (2015). Thomas Hackworth: Locomotive Engineer. Fonthill. pp. 26–32. ISBN 978-1-78155-464-7.
- Bailey, Michael R. (2014). "2: The First Industrial Locomotives: 1812–1815". Loco Motion. The History Press. pp. 23–30. ISBN 978-0-7524-9101-1.