Stephenson’s Killingworth Billy ‘older than we thought’
Jul 23, 2018
3 minutes
By Robin Jones
NRM
COLIN DAVISON/DISCOVERY MUSEUM
NORTH TYNESIDE MUSEUM
WHILE George Stephenson’s Rocket is based in its home town for the Great Exhibition of the North, one of his earlier locomotives has stolen some of the limelight.
Stephenson’s 0-4-0 Killingworth Billy – thought to have been built in 1826 three years before Rocket – is a decade older than thought, a new study has revealed.
Latest research indicated that the locomotive, housed in
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