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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.
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 ste
"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
Salamanca
Salamanca
The engine shed museum
The engine shed museum
Salamanca (locomotive)
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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
Middleton Railway
…it. Murray's design was based on Richard Trevithick's Catch me who can, adapted to use Blenkinsop's rack and pinion system, and probably was called Salamanca. This 1812 locomotive was the first to use two cylinders. These drove the pinions through cranks which were at right angles, so that the engine would…
The Collier, watercolour by George Walker, 1813
The Collier, watercolour by George Walker, 1813