Early British Locomotives and Rolling Stock

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The First Locomotives

  • Introduction (and Puffing Billy)
  • Planet type 2-2-0, 1830: Liverpool and Manchester Railway
  • Edward Bury's 2-2-0 Passenger Engine, 1837: London and Birmingham Railway
  • Robert Stephenson's The "North Star" -- 2-2-2, 1837: Great Western Railway (seven-foot guage)
  • The "Derwent," 1839: Stockton and Darlington Railway
  • McConnell "Bloomer", 1851, 2-2-2 express locomotive, London & North West Railway, Southern Division.
  • Folkstone 4-2-0, Southeastern Railway Company, 1851

Later Locomotives

  • Highland Railway 2-2-2, 1874
  • The Queen" — replica of the engine which used to pull the Queen's train

Passenger Cars

  • Third-class carriage. Liverpool and Manchester Railways, c. 1830
  • First-class carriage. Liverpool and Manchester Railways, c. 1830
  • Second-class Suburban Carriage. Great Eastern Railway
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