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Ivor the Engine is a British cutout animation television series created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms company. It follows the adventures of a small green steam locomotive who lives in the "top left-hand corner of Wales" and works for The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited.
GWR No. 36 was a prototype 4-6-0 steam locomotive constructed at Swindon Works for the Great Western Railway in 1896, the first 4-6-0 ever built for the GWR and one of the first in Britain. It was designed by William Dean and le Fleming comments that "the design is unusual and entirely Dean of the later period, including the only large boiler ...
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.
This locomotive was built by W. G. Bagnall in 1950, their works number 2962. It was delivered to Devonport Dockyard, the last steam locomotive to enter service there before diesels started to arrive in 1955. It was sold to the Cornwall Steam Locomotive Preservation Society (CSLPS) and moved to their site at Bodmin in 1969.
William Hedley (13 July 1779 – 9 January 1843 [1]) was born in Newburn, near Newcastle upon Tyne.He was one of the leading industrial engineers of the early 19th century, and was instrumental in several major innovations in early railway development.
Members of the public could view and ride on this train for a fare of 1 shilling. Trevithick hoped this would be a commercial venture, as well as creating publicity and hopefully demand for more locomotives. [3] Trevithick's fourth railway locomotive was built new for the Steam Circus. It was named Catch Me Who Can by the sister of Davies ...
The GWR 1901 Class was a class of 120 small 0-6-0 ST steam locomotives. Numbered 1901–2020, they were designed by George Armstrong (responsible to William Dean at Swindon) and built at the Wolverhampton railway works, England, of the Great Western Railway between 1881 and 1895. They had wheels of 4 ft 0 in (1.219 m) diameter and a coupled ...
It was one of twenty-five similar locomotives built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1903 for the Southern to haul freight. Between April 3–6, and August 23 - 24th, 1937, the locomotive was leased to the Atlantic and Yadkin Railway (A&Y), a subsidiary company of Southern Railroad. In June 1946, the A&Y requested No. 542 once more, this time in ...