The History of the First Public Railway, (Stockton & Darlington) the Opening Day, And What Followed
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Edward Pease's white stockings would not be improved in purity by the • grime of the engine ; but he was not a man to be put FIRST PUBLIC RAILWAY. 39 out with trifles, and lie watched with keen eye the performance of the locomotive, Stephenson attached it to a train of loaded waggons and so thoroughly tested its powers in various ways that his visitors returned to Darlington fully convinced that the loco- motive had a great future before it. It was well known that locomotives, bv \'arions maker...s, had been tried PUFFING Billy. at many places, but had not been a success, neither had they paid ; which facts were not very likely to prepossess Edward Pease in favour of this novel means of traction. Nevertheless the performance of the Killingworth engine sufficed to convince him that, in spite of previous failures, steam was destined to be 40 THE HISTORY OF THK the motive power of the future on the Railway, and from that conviction he never wavered. ' : The Line Advancing. In the spring of 1823, the varied works in con- nection with the making of the railway were in active operation.
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