The first steam railway locomotives, built in Britain between 1812 and 1830 by Matthew Murray, Richard Trevithick, John Blenkinsop and the Stephensons, which proved the idea that became the railway age. An entry belongs here when the cited article names an early steam locomotive built in Britain in the first decades of the nineteenth century. It excludes American-built locomotives and the express locomotives of the twentieth century. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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Wikipedia, Locomotion No. 1
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Locomotion No. 1 (originally named Active) is an early steam locomotive that was built in 1825 by the pioneering railway engineers George and Robert Stephenson at their manufacturing firm, Robert Stephenson and Company.
Puffing Billy (locomotive), Wikipedia
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Puffing Billy is the world's oldest surviving steam locomotive, constructed in 1813-1814 by 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.
Salamanca (locomotive) (Wikipedia)
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Salamanca was the first commercially successful steam locomotive, built in 1812 by Matthew Murray of Holbeck, for the edge-railed Middleton Railway between Middleton and Leeds, England and it predated Stephenson's Rocket by 17 years.
Novelty (locomotive) (Wikipedia)
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Novelty was an early steam locomotive built by John Ericsson and John Braithwaite to take part in the Rainhill Trials in 1829.
Catch Me Who Can (Wikipedia)
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Catch Me Who Can was the fourth and last steam railway locomotive created by the inventor and mining engineer Richard Trevithick.
Planet (locomotive) (Wikipedia)
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Planet was an early steam locomotive built in 1830 by Robert Stephenson and Company for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
Sans Pareil (Wikipedia)
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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.
Wikipedia: Adler (Locomotive)
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designed and built in 1835 by the British railway pioneers George and Robert Stephenson
World History Encyclopedia: Stephenson's Rocket
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The Rocket was a pioneering steam-powered locomotive invented in 1829 by the British engineer Robert Stephenson (1803-1859).
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