Puffing Billy (locomotive)
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Puffing Billy is the world's oldest surviving steam locomotive,[1][2] constructed in 1813–1814 by colliery viewer William Hedley, enginewright Jonathan Forster and blacksmith Timothy Hackworth for Christopher Blackett, the owner of Wylam Colliery near Newcastle upon Tyne, in the United Kingdom. It was employed to haul coal chaldron wagons from the mine at Wylam to the docks at Lemington in Northumberland.[3]
For the heritage railway in Melbourne, Australia, see Puffing Billy Railway.
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For other uses, see Puffing Billy.