Puffing Billy
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Puffing Billy – the world’s oldest surviving steam locomotive
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Robin Jones
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It is not often the name of a railway locomotive becomes adopted as an everyday saying in the English language, but many believe that happened in the case of the world’s oldest surviving steam locomotive. Heritage Railway editor Robin Jones has the story.
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