Killingworth
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Killingworth is a town in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, within the historic county of Northumberland.
Former British Gas building
Killingworth boating lake, 2 May 2006
Dial Cottage
Coal wagon, Killingworth
Killingworth locomotives
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George Stephenson built a number of experimental steam locomotives to work in the Killingworth Colliery between 1814 and 1826.
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…Nicholas Wood who was to succeed him as Chief Viewer at Killingworth. In 1814 George Stephenson, enginewright at the colliery, built his first locomotive Blücher with the help and encouragement of his manager, Nicholas Wood, in the colliery workshop behind his house 'Dial Cottage' on Lime Road. This locomotive…
One of the Killingworth engines
Half-lap jointed fishbelly rail patented in 1816
Killingworth Billy at the North Tyneside Steam Railway