Blucher
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The
Blucher was an early railway
locomotive built in
1814 by
George Stephenson for the Killingworth Colliery.
The Blucher was the first successful locomotive incorporating the following design features:
- Flanged wheels keeping the locomotive on the tracks
- Traction only relying on the friction of wheels on rails
- Cylinder rods directly connected to the wheel disks
The Blucher was able to pull a train of thirty tons with a speed of 4 mph. The locomotive was named after the
Prussian general
Gebhard Leberecht von Bl?her who helped Britain defeat
Napoleon at
Waterloo.
Other early locomotive designs