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You waited patiently through episode 1 thinking, “When’s he going to get to the engines?” Well, this is the one about the engines!
Contrary to popular opinion Rocket was not the first locomotive in Britain. In fact, it was about the seventieth.
This episode uses some of the important ones that came before to illustrate the state-of-the-art for motive power before the Rainhill Trials in 1829.
Show notes
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Research and Reading List
These are some of the books and websites I used for research for this episode. Some are free resources on the internet, some you can buy for yourself … if you do fancy any of them, then buying them through these links is a great way to support the show at no extra cost to you *.
Timothy Hackworth and the locomotive – Robert Young, 1923
A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads, and Interior Communication in General – Nicholas Wood, 1825
Leeds Mercury report on Salamanca, 18th July 1812 – British Newspaper Archive
Samuel Homfray to John Powell. Concerning the reference to arbitration of a dispute with Hill about an alleged breach – National Library of Wales
Agricultural Returns and the Government during the Napoleonic Wars – W. E. Minchinton, 1953
A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Vol. 4 The North-east – K. Hoole, 1974
A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Vol. 8 South and West Yorkshire, the industrial West Riding – David Joy, 1984
A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Vol. 12 South Wales – D.S.M. Barrie, 1994
Newbottle engine explosion – Liverpool Mercury article 18th August 1815 via Durham Mining Museum
The Life of George Stephenson – Samuel Smiles, 1857
Lives of The engineers: the locomotive – Samuel Smiles, 1877
Animation of a Newcomen engine
Images
Trevithick’s Coalbrookdale loco
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