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6 unusual facts about Timothy Hackworth

Blackett of Wylam

William Hedley, Timothy Hackworth and Jonathan Forster all worked at Wylam Colliery for Christopher Blackett (1751-1829), and there produced the famous early steam engines Puffing Billy (1813-1814) and Wylam Dilly (1815)

Blastpipe

At Wylam, Timothy Hackworth also employed a blastpipe on his earliest locomotives, but it is not clear whether this was an independent discovery or a copy of Trevithick's design.

GWR Hawthorn Class

:Built by Slaughter, Grüning and Company, This locomotive was named after Timothy Hackworth, a famous engineer.

Hackworth

Timothy Hackworth (1786–1850), steam locomotive mechanical engineer

Wylam

The steam locomotive engineer Timothy Hackworth, who worked with Stephenson, was also born here.

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Timothy Hackworth's father was foreman blacksmith at the colliery and his son was born in the village in December 1786.