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One of the earliest successful steam locomotives. Designed by William Hedley a mentor of George Stephenson, it operated at Wylam
colliery in the early 19th Century.
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A hunp at the top of a rope-hauled railway to prevent wagons or carriages accidentally running back down the incline; an incline on which wagons are built to be run off by gravity as required, usually...
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