Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,241 pages of information and 244,492 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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William Lister (of Hope Town)

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William Lister of Hope Town, Darlington. These works were close to the W. and A. Kitching Hope Town Foundry

Four locomotives built for the Stockton and Darlington Railway

A statement made in 1889, to the effect that locomotives Middlesbro, Ocean and Etherley were directly copied from the Tory locomotive, was made by William Jackson and William Mather who were workman employed at Lister's at that time.

See Also

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Sources of Information

  • Timothy Hackworth and the Locomotive by Robert Young. Published 1923.
  • British Steam Locomotive Builders by James W. Lowe. Published in 1975. ISBN 0-905100-816