Blenkinsop steam locomotive at Middleton colliery near Leeds Size:XL: 100 x 70cm Transverse section of St John's

Transverse section of St John's Chapel in the White Tower

London during the Reform Banquet

An 18th century illustration of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

17th July 1953

Blenkinsop steam locomotive at Middleton colliery near Leeds Size:XL: 100 x 70cm Transverse section of St John'sBlenkinsop steam locomotive at Middleton colliery near Leeds, West Yorkshire, 1814. From Costume of Yorkshire by George Walker, 1814. Mining engineer and inventor John Blenkinsop (1783 1831) designed the first practicable steam locomotive, the 'Salamanca', in 1812. It operated by means of a rack and pinion system. Richard Trevithick had built a steam locomotive in 1805 for Wylam colliery, but it had been too heavy for the cast iron rails it was meant