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Salamanca (locomotive)

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51: 255: 360: 306:: "Some time ago a steam-engine was mounted upon wheels at Leeds, and made to move along a rail road by means of a rack wheel, dragging after it a number of waggons loaded with coals." The item continues to mention a rack locomotive about a mile north of Newcastle ( 361:"Letter from Leighton Dalrymple, Lieutenant Colonel. Account of his visit to Wakefield and Leeds, including a description and sketch of John Blenkinsop's Steam Locomotive 'Salamanca' | Science Museum Group Collection" 1849: 874: 841: 527: 1829: 50: 867: 1824: 206: 1749: 326: 520: 860: 1324: 1844: 1319: 444: 416: 1839: 1783: 1695: 513: 485: 291: 1754: 1589: 1398: 836: 756: 1042: 272:
It appears in the first painting of a steam locomotive, a watercolour by George Walker (1781–1856) published in his
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on the left side of the locomotive. The cog wheel was driven by twin cylinders embedded into the top of the
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linkage like the majority of early locomotives. The engines saw up to twenty years of service.
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A model of the locomotive, built by Murray in 1811, is part of the collection held at
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by 17 years. It was the first to have two cylinders. It was named after the
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is probably the locomotive referred to in the September 1814 edition of
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Steam Nostalgia: Locomotive and Railway Preservation in Great Britain
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Index

The Salamanca
Salamanca (disambiguation)

Fenton, Murray and Wood
Gauge
Middleton Railway
steam locomotive
Matthew Murray
Holbeck
edge-railed
Middleton Railway
Middleton
Leeds
Stephenson's Rocket
Duke of Wellington's
battle of Salamanca
rack and pinion
John Blenkinsop
rack propulsion
narrow gauge
cog wheel
centre-flue boiler
crossheads
parallel motion

Collier
watercolour
The Costume of Yorkshire
boiler exploded
George Stephenson

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