{"id":27,"date":"2015-02-01T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/joanhackworthweircollection\/2015\/02\/01\/wylam-200-years-of-railway-history-and-other-books-by-george-smith\/"},"modified":"2015-02-01T14:14:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T14:14:00","slug":"wylam-200-years-of-railway-history-and-other-books-by-george-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/joanhackworthweircollection\/2015\/02\/01\/wylam-200-years-of-railway-history-and-other-books-by-george-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Wylam: 200 Years of Railway History – and other books by George Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“The story of Wylam village in Northumberland is a story about the origin of railways. The birthplace of George Stephenson, it was the centre for the first revolutionary pioneering work on railway engineering which laid the foundation for all that followed. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, on the instigation of colliery owner Christopher Blackett, a series of revolutionary experiments in railway technology were conducted. The principal protagonists read like a roll call of great railway engineers: the wayward genius Richard Trevithick, the devout Methodist Timothy Hackworth who wouldn’t work on the Sabbath and the portly asthmatic William Hedley who oversaw the work. It was Hedley who, in 1813, would invent the legendary Puffing Billy, the first reliable working steam locomotive.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nCoal in the North East.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe Growth of Wagon-ways<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWylam Colliery and Christopher Blackett<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWilliam Hedley, Timothy Hackworth, Nicholas Wood and George Stephenson<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe First Wylam Experiments<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe Development of the steam Locomotive<\/span><\/div>\n
\nPuffing Billy<\/span><\/div>\n
\nStephenson’s First Locomotives<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWylam Dilly and Land Mary<\/span><\/div>\n
\nStephenson, Tennant and the Stockton and Darlington Railway<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe Wylam public Railways<\/span><\/div>\n
\nTimothy Hackworth and the Locomotive Industry<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe Wylam Boom years<\/span><\/div>\n
\nEpilogue; The Wylam Legacy.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nWylam Station<\/span><\/div>\n
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https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Railway-History-New-Shildon-Stephenson\/dp\/152673639X<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/div>\n
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Available on Kindle or in book form  http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Wylam-200-Years-Railway-History-ebook\/dp\/B00GNBGTK0 (Kindle) Google the book for other options or sources. “The story of Wylam village in Northumberland is a story about the origin of railways. The birthplace of George Stephenson, it was the centre for the first revolutionary pioneering work on railway engineering which laid the foundation for all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/joanhackworthweircollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/joanhackworthweircollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/joanhackworthweircollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/joanhackworthweircollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/joanhackworthweircollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/joanhackworthweircollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/joanhackworthweircollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/joanhackworthweircollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/joanhackworthweircollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}