Wylam Dilly

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Wylam Dilly
Power type Steam
Builder William Hedley and Timothy Hackworth
Build date 1813
Disposition static display at the Royal Museum in Edinburgh

Wylam Dilly is one of the two oldest surviving railway locomotives in the world;[1] it was built in 1813 by William Hedley and Timothy Hackworth. Wylam Dilly was initially designed for and used on the Wylam Waggonway (or Wagonway) to transport coal.[2] It is currently on display in the Royal Museum in Edinburgh.[1] A similar steam locomotive, Puffing Billy is in the Science Museum in London.

In 1822 the locomotive was mounted on a keel and served as the engine for a steam paddlewheeler that ferried strikebreakers on the River Tyne.[2][3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Move It Teachers' Notes. National Museums of Scotland. Retrieved on 2007-06-26.
  2. ^ a b Wylam WagGon Way. Heddon on the Wall. Retrieved on 2007-06-26.
  3. ^ Wylam Dilly and the Keelmen. Working Class Movement Library. Retrieved on 2006-06-26.


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"Pen-y-darren" (1804) • Catch Me Who Can (1808) • The Salamanca (1812) • Puffing Billy, Wylam Dilly, Steam Horse (1813) • Blücher (1814) • Steam Elephant (1815)
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