John Blenkinsop
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John Blenkinsop was an English mining engineer and an inventor of steam locomotives, who designed the first practical railway locomotive.
Blenkinsop's rack locomotive
Blenkinsop's grave
Inscription, upper
Middleton Railway
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The Middleton Railway is the world's oldest continuously working railway, situated in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1758 and is now a heritage railway, run by volunteers from The M
Main station building on Moor Road.
"The Collier", aquatint from a painting by George Walker in his The Costume of Yorkshire, engraved by Robert Havell 1814, showing a Matthew Murray steam locomotive (Salamanca) on the Middleton Railway
The engine shed museum