Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Puffing Billy is an early railway steam locomotive, constructed in 1813-1814 by engineer William Hedley, enginewright Jonathan Forster and blacksmith Timothy Hackworth for Christopher Blackett, the owner of Wylam Colliery near Newcastle upon Tyne, in the United Kingdom. It is the world's oldest surviving steam locomotive. It was the first commercial adhesion steam locomotive, employed to haul coal chaldron wagons from the mine at Wylam to the docks at Lemington-on-Tyne in Northumberland. It was one of a number of similar engines built by Hedley, the resident engineer at Wylam Colliery, to replace the horses used as motive power on the tramway. Due to the Napoleonic Wars, the demand for horses by the army made them very expensive to obtain. The engines remained in service for many years and were not retired until as late as 1862.

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