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    The Stourbridge Lion was an early railroad steam locomotive. In 1829, it was the first locomotive and the first foreign-built locomotive to be operated...
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    years. In 2014, Lion Health medical centre opened in the renovated former foundry of Foster, Rastrick and Company – where the Stourbridge Lion locomotive was...
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    locomotive run on rails in the United States, the Stourbridge Lion. On August 8, 1829, the Stourbridge Lion started in Honesdale, ran three miles to Seelyville...
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    Foster, Rastrick and Company (category Stourbridge)
    steam locomotive manufacturing companies of England. It was based in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, now West Midlands. James Foster, an ironmaster, and...
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  • 57 Lion, an 1838 early British steam locomotive South Devon Railway Eagle class, a South Devon Railway 4-4-0ST steam locomotive Stourbridge Lion, an...
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  • place on August 8, 1829. The locomotive was the Stourbridge Lion. A replica of the Stourbridge Lion steam engine is on display in Honesdale to this day...
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  • Stourbridge Lion's first run, recreated ca. 1916 Stephenson’s Rocket, contemporary drawing Carrollton Viaduct, in 1971 August 8 – The Stourbridge Lion...
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  • John Urpeth Rastrick (category People from Stourbridge)
    Rastrick and Company, the locomotive construction company that built the Stourbridge Lion in 1829 for export to the Delaware and Hudson Railroad in America....
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    was the famous Stourbridge Lion, and the less-known "America", lighter locomotive which was delivered 5 months before the Stourbridge Lion and which was...
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    responsible for the importation of America's first steam locomotive, the Stourbridge Lion in 1829, Carbondale was once a main terminus of the Delaware and Hudson...
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    American railroads were imported from Great Britain, including first the Stourbridge Lion and later the John Bull. However, a domestic locomotive-manufacturing...
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    British-built railroad steam locomotive LMR 57 Lion – Liverpool and Manchester Railway steam locomotive Stourbridge Lion – Railroad steam locomotive built in 1829...
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    Amblecote (category Stourbridge)
    the Stourbridge Ironworks of John Bradley & Co, which included the engineering works of Foster, Rastrick and Company, which made the Stourbridge Lion, the...
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    outskirts of Stourbridge, in the south of the Dudley district, in the county of the West Midlands, England. It is located one mile west of Stourbridge town centre...
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    follow, including the Camden and Amboy by 1832. August 8, 1829: The Stourbridge Lion, first steam locomotive imported into the US, is tested along tracks...
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  • Stourbridge RFC is a rugby union side based in Stourbridge, West Midlands and play in the fifth tier of the English rugby union league system; Regional...
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    Company's gravity railroad in northeast Pennsylvania opened using Stourbridge Lion, the first locomotive to run on rails in the United States. It was...
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  • permitted due to league rules on reserve teams in the RFU leagues. Stourbridge Lions and Uttoxeter were relegated to Counties 2 Midlands West (West) and...
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    Locomotion No 1 – Robert Stephenson Sans Pareil – Timothy Hackworth Stourbridge Lion – Foster, Rastrick and Company Stephenson's Rocket – George and Robert...
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    April 8, 1826. On August 8, 1829, the D&H's first locomotive, the Stourbridge Lion, made history as the first locomotive to run on rails in the United...
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    locomotives for American railroads were imported from England, including the Stourbridge Lion and the John Bull, but a domestic locomotive manufacturing industry...
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    miles of wood rails capped by strap iron, conducts the first test of Stourbridge Lion steam engine built in England. 1830 – The Canterbury & Whitstable Railway...
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    world to travel by air. Trains portal United States portal LMR 57 Lion Stourbridge Lion Tom Thumb Burlingame, Luther D. (6 October 1911). "Shop Safeguards"...
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  • 1829: The Stourbridge Lion, first steam locomotive to be operated in the United States, built by Foster, Rastrick and Company of Stourbridge, Worcestershire...
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    steam locomotive built by the Foster, Rastrick and Co partnership of Stourbridge, England. It first ran on 2 June 1829 along the Kingswinsford Railway...
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    Scottish Museum, Edinburgh Puffing Billy / Wylam Dilly (1813–1815) Stourbridge Lion / Agenoria (1828) Baltimore & Ohio grasshopper locomotives (1832) A...
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    James Foster (ironmaster) (category People from Stourbridge)
    Bradley & Co, Stourbridge, which was founded by his elder half-brother but greatly enlarged under his direction. As well as the Stourbridge ironworks, the...
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    Puffing Billy, Stephenson's Rocket and Agenoria (sister locomotive to Stourbridge Lion), which was outhoused to York at an early date. Preservation of redundant...
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    railroad. Allen stated that on August 9, 1829, he ran a locomotive named Stourbridge Lion in Pennsylvania "three miles and back over rails of wood upon which...
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    Horatio Allen, who had already toured English railroads, and drove the Stourbridge Lion on its first and only run in America. Allen argued successfully before...
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