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- noun An early form of
railway using shapediron rails
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In order to neutralise as much as possible the jolts and shocks which such an engine would necessarily encounter from the obstacles and inequalities of the then very imperfect plateway, the water-barrel which served for a tender was fixed to the end of a lever and weighted, the other end of the lever being connected with the frame of the locomotive carriage.
Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858
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Mr. Blackett’s engines were working daily at Wylam, past the cottage where he had been born; and thither he frequently went to inspect the improvements made by Mr. Blackett from time to time both in the locomotive and in the plateway along which it worked.
Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858
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