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    Wylam /ˈwaɪləm/ is a village and civil parish in the county of Northumberland, England. It is located about 10 miles (16 km) west of Newcastle upon Tyne...
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    North Wylam. The line then crossed the River Tyne using the Wylam Railway Bridge, rejoining the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway again at the West Wylam Junction...
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    owner of Wylam Colliery near Newcastle upon Tyne, in the United Kingdom. It was employed to haul coal chaldron wagons from the mine at Wylam to the docks...
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  • The Blacketts of Wylam were a branch of the Blackett family of Hoppyland, County Durham, England and were related to the Blackett baronets. John Blackett...
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    in early railway development. While working as a 'viewer' or manager at Wylam Colliery near Newcastle upon Tyne, he built the first practical steam locomotive...
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    Blackett, the owner of Wylam colliery, west of Newcastle upon Tyne. Wylam Dilly was initially designed for and used on the Wylam Waggonway to transport...
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    Wylam Bridge is a road bridge in Northumberland, England linking the residential area of North Wylam and neighbouring villages of Heddon-on-the-Wall, and...
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    Prudhoe (section West Wylam)
    the Tyne Valley after Hexham. Nearby villages include Ovingham, Ovington, Wylam, Stocksfield, Hedley on the Hill and Mickley. The name derives from the...
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    was Easter 2015. However, plans changed and the Palace of Arts now hosts Wylam Brewery, which opened on 27 May 2016. This event began to be held by the...
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    Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway was a railway company that built the 6+1⁄2 miles (10.5 km) North Wylam branch or North Wylam loop on the former Newcastle...
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    Birmingham (/ˈbɜːrmɪŋhæm/ BUR-ming-ham) is a city in the north central region of Alabama, United States. Birmingham is the county seat of Jefferson County...
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    Wylam Railway Bridge (officially West Wylam Bridge, also known as Hagg Bank Bridge and locally as Points Bridge and Half-Moon Bridge) is a footbridge...
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    Wylam is a railway station on the Tyne Valley Line, which runs between Newcastle and Carlisle via Hexham. The station, situated 9 miles 71 chains (9.89 mi;...
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    least for the justice of Christ". The Church of England parish church of Wylam, Northumberland, England is dedicated to Saint Oswin. The church was built...
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    Puffing Billy built by Christopher Blackett and William Hedley for the Wylam Colliery Railway, the first successful locomotive running by adhesion only...
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    Timothy Hackworth (category People from Wylam)
    superintendent of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. Timothy Hackworth was born in Wylam in 1786, five years after his fellow railway pioneer George Stephenson had...
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    small Northumberland enclave on the south bank of the River Tyne linked to Wylam by the Points Bridge. It consists of approximately 25 originally two-up...
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    George Stephenson (category People from Wylam)
    Railway, which opened in 1830. George Stephenson was born on 9 June 1781 in Wylam, Northumberland, which is 9 miles (15 km) west of Newcastle upon Tyne. He...
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  • since 2012. Blackett is a direct descendant of Christopher Blackett of Wylam Hall, Northumberland, founder of The Globe newspaper, and entrepreneur behind...
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  • Corbridge, Seahouses, Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Stocksfield, Haltwhistle, Wylam, Chathill, Belford and Wooler), plus a very small part of northern County...
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    The pavilion is now being used as a microbrewery and concert venue for Wylam Brewery. The wooded gorge of the Ouseburn in the east of the city is known...
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    Park, Warkworth George Stephenson, pioneering railway engineer, born at Wylam in 1781 Trevor Steven, footballer born in Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1963 Percival...
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    villages around Hexham include Corbridge, Riding Mill, Stocksfield and Wylam to the east, Acomb and Bellingham to the north, Allendale to the south and...
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    NE NE39 Rowlands Gill Tyne and Wear NE NE40 RYTON Tyne and Wear NE NE41 Wylam Northumberland NE NE42 Prudhoe Northumberland NE NE43 Stocksfield Northumberland...
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    were used; in the north of England none was less than 4 ft (1,219 mm). Wylam colliery's system, built before 1763, was 5 ft (1,524 mm), as was John Blenkinsop's...
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    (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge. In 1748, the Wylam waggonway was built to a 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge for the shipment of coal from Wylam to Lemington down the River Tyne...
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    built 1813–14 by engineer William Hedley. It was intended to work on the Wylam Colliery near Newcastle upon Tyne. This locomotive is the oldest preserved...
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    performances. Music was by Wilfred Josephs, under the pseudonym Wilfred Wylam. The Great Houdini a.k.a. The Great Houdinis (1976) – played by Paul Michael...
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  • Retrieved March 22, 2014. King, Pamela Sterne; Steven M. Kay (May 22, 1990). "Wylam Fire Station". National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. National...
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    Retrieved 19 February 2020. "RHS Plant Selector - Camellia japonica 'Annie Wylam'". Archived from the original on 20 February 2020. Retrieved 19 February...
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