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" An ingenious and highly interesting experiment was performed in the presence of a vast concourse of spectators, on the railway leading from the collieries of Kenton and Coxlodge, near Newcastle, by the application of a steam-engine, constructed by Messrs.... "
Local Records: Or, Historical Register of Remarkable Events, which Have ... - Page 74
by John Sykes - 1833
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The Steam Engine and Its Inventors: A Historical Sketch

Robert Lindsay Galloway - Inventors - 1881 - 344 pages
...trial will appear from the following notice of it, taken from the local papers of the time : — " An ingenious and highly interesting experiment was...and Wood, of Leeds, under the direction of Mr. John Blenldnsop, the patentee, for the purpose of drawing the coal-waggons. About one o'clock the new invention...
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George Stephenson: The Locomotive and the Railway

John F. Layson - Railroad engineers - 1881 - 140 pages
...inauguration there is thus chronicled in the Local Records of John Sykes, under date 2d September 1813 : — " An ingenious and highly interesting experiment was...Coxlodge, near Newcastle, by the application of a steam engine, constructed by Messrs. Fenton, Murray, and Wood, of Leeds, under the direction of Mr....
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George Stephenson: The Locomotive and the Railway

John F. Layson - Railroad engineers - 1881 - 138 pages
...inauguration there is thus chronicled in the Local Records of John Sykes, under date 2d September 1813 : — " An ingenious and highly interesting experiment was...concourse of spectators, on the railway leading from the ollieries of Kenton and Coxlodge, near Newcastle, by the application of a steam engine, constructed...
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Old Yorkshire, Volume 3

William Smith (F.S.A.S.) - Leeds mercury (England) - 1882 - 386 pages
...experiment was made with a, machine constructed by Messrs. Fenton, Murray, and Wood, of this place, under the direction of Mr. John Blenkinsop, the patentee, for the purpose of substituting the agency of steam for the use of horses in the conveyance of coals, on the Iron-rail-way...
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Old Yorkshire, Volume 3

Yorkshire (England) - 1882 - 376 pages
...experiment was made with a machine constructed by Messrs. Fenton, Murray, and Wood, of this place, under the direction of Mr. John Blenkinsop, the patentee, for the purpose of substituting the agency of steam for the use of horses in the conveyance of coals, on the Iron-rail-way...
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Social England Under the Regency, Volume 1

John Ashton - England - 1890 - 410 pages
...been very similar to this: — "July i. On Wednesday last, an experiment was made with a machine at Leeds, under the direction of Mr. John Blenkinsop the patentee, for the purpose of substituting the agency of steam for the use of horses, in the conveyance of Coals on the iron railway...
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Transactions - Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of ..., Volume 6

Newcomen Society (Great Britain) - Engineering - 1927 - 292 pages
...interesting experiment was made with a Machine constructed by Messrs. Fenton, Murray and Wood of this place under the direction of Mr. John Blenkinsop, the Patentee, for the purpose of substituting the agency of steam in the conveyance of coal on the Iron Railway from the mines of IC...
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Two Essays in Early Locomotive History: I. The First Hundred ..., Volume 1

Chapman Frederick Dendy Marshall - Locomotives - 1928 - 136 pages
...ii, New Edition, p. 74, describes the inauguration of the Coxlodge service : September 2nd (1813). An ingenious and highly interesting experiment was...the patentee, for the purpose of drawing the coal wagons. About one o'clock the new invention was set agoing, having attached to it sixteen chaldron...
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Matthew Murray, Pioneer Engineer: Records from 1765 to 1826

Ernest Kilburn Scott - Mechanical engineering - 1928 - 154 pages
...interesting experiment was made with a Machine constructed by Messrs. Fenton, Murray and Wood of this place under the direction of Mr. John Blenkinsop, the Patentee, for the purpose of substituting the agency of steam in the conveyance of coal on the Iron Railway from the mines of IC...
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Niles' National Register, Volume 23

1822 - 626 pages
...experiment was made with u machine, constructed by Messrs. Fenton, Murray and Wood, of this place, under the direction of Mr. John Blenkinsop, the patentee, for the purpose of substituting the agency of steam for the use of horses, in the conveyance of coals on the iron rail...
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