Locomotive: Columbine
From Graces Guide
Built 1845 at Crewe. Exhibit at London Science Museum.
"The first entirely new locomotive engine constructed at Crewe was completed on February 20th 1845, and was No. 49 Columbine, a 6ft passenger engine. This engine had been preserved at Crewe and is now to be seen at Wembley (1925), and it bears a plate affixed to it, stating that F. H. Trevithick was then chief mechanical engineer of the Grand Junction Railway. From The Engineer 1925/06/05
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