Josiah Kearsley
From Graces Guide
1844 New locomotive. 'Mr. Josiah Kearsley (late superintendent of the locomotives on the Midland Counties Railway) has just constructed and put upon that line an engine which took fifty-five loaded waggons an incline of .002, or ten and half feet in a mile, at twenty-seven miles an hour; it has 15-inch cylinders, 2-feet stroke, and 4 feet 8 inches driving wheels, and works at 75 lbs. pressure.'[1]
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- ↑ Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 23 October 1844