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    Puffing Billy is the world's oldest surviving steam locomotive, constructed in 1813–1814 by colliery viewer William Hedley, enginewright Jonathan Forster...
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    The Puffing Billy Railway is a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge heritage railway in the southern foothills of the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne, Australia...
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  • Puffing Billy may refer to: Puffing Billy Railway, a narrow-gauge heritage tourist railway near Melbourne, Australia Puffing Billy (locomotive), an early...
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  • contaminant, typically found around old gasworks Puffing Billy (locomotive), first commercial railway steam locomotive in the UK Will (disambiguation) William...
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    steam-engine". The item continues to mention a locomotive without a rack wheel (probably Puffing Billy at Wylam). Blücher did not survive: Stephenson...
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    by the locomotive Puffing Billy built by Christopher Blackett and William Hedley for the Wylam Colliery Railway, the first successful locomotive running...
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    Wylam Dilly (category Early steam locomotives)
    display. The first steam locomotive of its class, Puffing Billy, is in the Science Museum in London. In 1822, the locomotive was temporarily mounted on...
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    "History Of The Climax Locomotive". Climax Locomotives. Retrieved 2018-03-12. "Climax Locomotive No. 1694 Recommissioning". Puffing Billy Preservation Society...
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    mention a rack locomotive about a mile north of Newcastle (Blücher at Killingworth) and one without a rack wheel (probably Puffing Billy at Wylam). A model...
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    Puffing Billy Railway in the 1980s. A major overhaul has been finished and it returned to service Sunday 8 September 2013. Lima-built Shay locomotive...
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    Queensland Railways DH class (category B-B locomotives)
    Walkers/Caterpillar DH Class Queensland's Railway Interest Group Other Puffing Billy Locomotives Puffing Billy Preservation Society "DH72 heading south to join DH37 in...
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    Collection in 2021. ""Puffing Billy" locomotive". Our collection. National Railway Museum. Retrieved 15 July 2011. "Steam locomotive entitled, Locomotion"...
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  • Orchestra. The piece was inspired by an old steam locomotive called "Puffing Billy" (not the locomotive in the London Science Museum), seen by the composer...
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    oldest operating steam locomotive from Victoria at Puffing Billy Railway. Fowler 5265 (1886), oldest operating steam locomotive from Tasmania at Don River...
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    prototype. A ready to run die-cast and plastic model of the NA Puffing Billy locomotive was released by Haskell in 2014 and they have subsequently also...
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    John (1981). G42, Puffing Billy's Big Brother: pictorial history of a Beyer-Garratt in Victoria, Australia. Melbourne: Puffing Billy Preservation Society...
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    rack locomotive Salamanca first ran on the edge-railed rack-and-pinion Middleton Railway. Another well-known early locomotive was Puffing Billy, built...
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    availability of the locomotive. Cylinders may be arranged in several different ways. On early locomotives, such as Puffing Billy, the cylinders were often...
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    Victorian Railways NA class (category Victorian Railways locomotives)
    Railway. As of January 2021, the Puffing Billy Railway operates NA class locomotives 6A, 7A, 8A, 12A, and 14A. Puffing Billy Railway also have 3A which is...
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  • (another colliery employee) designed a locomotive in 1813 which became known as Puffing Billy. Puffing Billy featured piston rods extending upwards to...
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    regarded as the first commercially successful locomotive. Another well-known early locomotive was Puffing Billy, built 1813–14 by engineer William Hedley...
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    Victorian Railways G class (category Garratt locomotives)
    (1981). G42 Puffing Billy's Big Brother. Belgrave: Puffing Billy Preservation Society. Media related to Victorian Railways G class steam locomotives at Wikimedia...
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    restored to working order on the Puffing Billy Railway. Apart from light maintenance that could be done locally, the locomotives and rolling stock were maintained...
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    William Hedley (category Locomotive builders and designers)
    Matthew Murray and a return flue boiler. This was the famous steam locomotive, Puffing Billy which first ran in 1813 and is now preserved at the Science Museum...
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    2-6-2 (category 2-6-2 locomotives)
    2-6-2T locomotives which were built for the 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge system of the Victorian Railways (VR), are the now famous "Puffing Billy" engines...
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    day): An original locomotive, the 1850s Hetton Lyon, was a static exhibit in the Great Shed. The museum has a replica of Puffing Billy, built in 2006 by...
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    display in Taiwan. No. 14 has been exported to Australia's Puffing Billy Railway. Locomotive No. 22 is on display at Jiji Railway Station in Jiji, Taiwan...
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  • Tournament was named in honor of the world's oldest surviving steam locomotive, Puffing Billy, which was built in 1814. Another important event for train gamers...
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    went on to design and manufacture Puffing Billy in 1813, two years before George Stephenson produced his first locomotive Blücher. Christopher Blackett as...
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    Northumberland colliery at Wylam that built Puffing Billy, the first commercial adhesion steam locomotive. He was also the founding owner of The Globe...
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