Robert Wilson and Co of Forth Street, Newcastle
Presumably the business of Robert Wilson (of Gateshead)[1]
1826 Built a locomotive named Stockton for the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the fifth locomotive on this line - the locomotive may have been called Chittaprat
The engine was not a success; the boiler was used for Hackworth's Royal George.
1827 Built the Royal George for Timothy Hackworth which was used on the Stockton and Darlington Railway
See Also
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Sources of Information
- ↑ His address as Gateshead was given by E. L. Ahrons in 1925 in The Engineer 1925/01/02
- British Steam Locomotive Builders by James W. Lowe. Published in 1975. ISBN 0-905100-816
- Early British Railway Locomotives, by E L Ahrons.