StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: early locomotive

The Hetton Colliery locomotive "Lyon" ... the actual age & designer have been subjects of study & debate for some time ... HOWEVER, investigations in 2020 strongly indicate that she was built c1849 ... see here for more information www.railwaymuseum.org.uk/about-us/press-office/myth-hetton-engine-solved Wikipedia needs to be updated ! Claimed to have been built by the colliery in 1851/2 to a design by Young, extensively rebuilt in 1882 and continued to work until approx 1910 [1908 - 1812, sources differ]. This could be a replica of an earlier design built in 1852 by Wood. full item ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon,_Hetton_colliery_railway

A view of contrasts ... Locomotion [the 1975 replica] HST [class 43 ; 43 102] production power car D200 [class 40 ; 40122] headboard says "first 2000 hp diesel London to Norwich" Class 55 [Deltic] - DP1, the class protoytpe

A very simplified replica of "Locomotion" and no, I don't think the original had a seat for the "driver"

Some info on Derwent's history ... [tbh, this plaque should be mounted on a stand, nearer to a visitor's eye level] . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derwent_(locomotive)

"Derwent" built in 1845 by Timothy Hackworth, an original Stockton & Darlington Railway locomotive. Fireman works on the nearer footplate and the driver at the far end [on the footplate just beyond the cylinders]. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derwent_(locomotive)

The unique steam locomotive "Fire Queen" built in 1848 by Horlocks for the 4ft gauge Padarn Railway. Pictured outside her shed at Llanberis. [date ??? - possibly 10 Dec 1969 - but that bit of track looks very temporary]. Her "twin" the Jenny Lind was scrapped. Moved from the National Trust's Penrhyn Castle railway museum to the Vale of Rheidol's museum at Aberystwyth in early 2024. . . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Queen . www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/29/Fire_Queen.htm not my image : fair use & public information