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Coal Staithe - Leeds

The world's first commercially successful locomotive Salamanca, built in 1812, with Blenkinsop's rack and pinion drive. The locomotive was designed by Matthew Murray and made in Hunslet by Fenton, Murray and Wood.

Date 1829

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