page_title: 1812 in rail transport
section_title: August events
hierarchical_section_title: 1812 in rail transport / Events / August events
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of The Collier, en:aquatint by Robert Havell published 1814, showing a locomotive on the en:Middleton Railway. To help clarify the location of the scene: Middleton village is to the right of the colliery chimney and the loco is facing in the direction of Leeds.
context_section_description: August 12 – The Middleton Railway, serving coal pits at Leeds in England, becomes the first to use steam locomotives successfully in regular service. The first locomotive, Salamanca, is also the first to use two cylinders and has a rack railway mechanism devised by John Blenkinsop and built by Matthew Murray.
caption: Steam locomotive on Middleton Railway
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