Puffing Billy 1813
The oldest surviving steam locomotive, constructed by William Hedley at the Wylam Colliery (Northumberland), partly rebuilt 1813, photographed here 1862 still in use, and now in the Science Museum, South Kensington, London.
- Date
- 1862
- Photographer / author
- photographer
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 1,161 × 1,018 pixels
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