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The original Puffing Billy was built in 1813/14, and is the world's oldest surviving steam locomotive. The original was designed by William Hedley for Wylam Colliery, where it saw use for nearly 50 years, hauling coal chaldron wagons on the Wylam to Lemington waggonway.
The Puffing Billy Railway is a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge heritage railway in the southern foothills of the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne, Australia. The railway was one of the five narrow gauge lines of the Victorian Railways which opened around the beginning of the 20th century.
Puffing Billy is the world's oldest surviving steam locomotive, [1] [2] constructed in 1813–1814 by colliery viewer 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.
Lakeside railway station is situated on the Puffing Billy Railway in Melbourne, Australia.It was opened in 1944 to serve Emerald Lake Park, a popular picnic and recreation reserve created during World War II.
NA class locomotive 6A, preserved on the Puffing Billy Railway in the original green livery used by the Victorian Railways until 1903. Photographed at Gembrook in 2006. The former Victorian Railways, the state railway authority in Victoria, Australia, built a number of experimental 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow-gauge lines around the beginning of the 20th century.
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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 ...
Nobelius railway station is situated on the Puffing Billy Railway, and opened in 1927. It was named after the founder of the nearby Gembrook Nurseries, Carl Axel Nobelius, and his family. It was named after the founder of the nearby Gembrook Nurseries, Carl Axel Nobelius, and his family.