Sans Pareil is a steam locomotive built by Timothy Hackworth for the Rainhill Trials of 1829, entered as a rival to Robert Stephenson's Rocket in the competition to power the new Liverpool and Manchester Railway. It performed strongly during the trials but was disqualified after a cast iron cylinder cracked, a defect later attributed partly to the cylinder having been cast at the Stephenson works rather than by Hackworth himself. Despite its disqualification Sans Pareil went on to genuine working service afterward, hauling trains on the Bolton and Leigh Railway, and it survives today as a preserved locomotive.
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took part in the 1829 Rainhill Trials
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Sans Pareil is a steam locomotive built by Timothy Hackworth, which took part in the 1829 Rainhill Trials on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway held to select a builder of locomotives.
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