Wylam Dilly

Wylam Dilly

Infobox Locomotive
name = "Wylam Dilly"
powertype = Steam
builder = William Hedley and Timothy Hackworth
builddate = 1813
gauge= RailGauge|5ft|lk=on
disposition = static display at the Royal Museum in Edinburgh

"Wylam Dilly" is one of the two oldest surviving railway locomotives in the world;cite web| url=http://www.nms.ac.uk/moveitteachersnotes.aspx| title=Move It Teachers' Notes| publisher=National Museums of Scotland| accessdate=2007-06-26| ] it was built in 1813 by William Hedley and Timothy Hackworth. "Wylam Dilly" was initially designed for and used on the Wylam Waggonway (or Wagonway) to transport coal.cite web| url=http://www.heddon.co.uk/history/village/wagon.htm| title=Wylam WagGon Way| publisher=Heddon on the Wall| accessdate=2007-06-26| ] It is currently on display in the Royal Museum in Edinburgh. A similar steam locomotive, "Puffing Billy" is in the Science Museum in London.

In 1822 the locomotive was mounted on a keel and served as the engine for a steam paddlewheeler that ferried strikebreakers on the River Tyne. [cite web| url=http://www.wcml.org.uk/gmb/wylamdilly.htm| title=Wylam Dilly and the Keelmen| publisher=Working Class Movement Library| accessdate=2006-06-26| ]

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