File:Puffing Billy locomotive (Howden, Boys' Book of Locomotives, 1907).jpg

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"Puffing Billy" 1813. Built by Blackett for Wylam Colliery, Northumberland.
Although the Blackett family were the colliery owners, the engineer of the locomotives is now recognised as William Hedley, with the assistantance of Timothy Hackworth and Jonathan Forster.

This photograph has also been identified as the sister engine Wylam Dilly.
Date 1850s
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
Source Scan from Howden, J.R. (1907) The Boys' Book of Locomotives, London: E. Grant Richards, pp. facing p. 6
Author Andy Dingley (scanner)
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