Other industries to have set up in the massive Port Kembla industrial complex — the largest single concentration of heavy industry in Australia — include a fertiliser plant, an electrolytic copper smelter ( featuring the tallest chimney in Australia ), a locomotive workshop, a coal export shipping terminal, a grain export shipping terminal and an industrial gases manufacturing plant.

It was intended to become the main freight depot and locomotive workshop for the company.

It was here in 1814 that George Stephenson, enginewright at the colliery, built his first locomotive Blücher with the help and encouragement of his manager at Killingworth, Nicholas Wood, in the colliery workshop behind his house " Dial Cottage " on Lime Road.

The vintage machinery in the workshop is still capable of full locomotive overhauls.

The locomotive workshop was closed in 1988 and the main rail workshops were moved to Enfield.

Heavy overhauls are undertaken at Churston where there is a locomotive workshop on the west side of the line, and a carriage shop and turntable on the east side.

This original workshop has been much added to over the years and the equipment in this workshop allows most of the work on restoring a steam locomotive to be undertaken, excluding boiler construction.

* February – April-Queensland Railway strike, a labor union strike over wages issues by railway workshop and locomotive depot workers in Queensland, Australia.

East End Shops ) is an active railroad workshop and maintenance facility for Norfolk Southern, and former steam locomotive builder, in Roanoke, Virginia.

The final and largest building in the locomotive museum contains the main exhibition hall and a conservation workshop with viewing gallery where visitors can see the work carried out by volunteers to restore some of the exhibits.

Boilerwork and final reassembly of the locomotive took place at the Flour Mill workshop, Lydney after further funding was provided by Alan Moore CBE.

For many years it was also the junction for Moretonhampstead and the site of a large locomotive workshop.

Under locomotive workshop practices of the time, parts were interchanged between the sister locomotives throughout their 25 years ' service.

In addition to locomotive building, from 1850 standardised goods wagons were produced, and in 1867 Swindon was made the central workshop for the construction of carriages and wagons, with extensions and of additional sidings.

This was the heyday of Swindon Works, when 14, 000 people were employed and the main locomotive fabrication workshop, the A Shop was, at, one of the largest covered areas in the world.

However a new workshop at Horley, midway between London and Brighton, also opened in 1841, was then planned to become the principal locomotive and carriage workshop of the new railway.

After the completion of the Plovdiv-Dimitrovgrad high-speed line on 1 July 2012 the top operating speed was raised to 200 km / h and the national top speed record of 197 km / h set between Iskar and Elin Pelin with a leased Siemens Taurus electric locomotive is soon expected to be broken.

She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir's 1959 essay, The Lolita Syndrome, which described Bardot as a " locomotive of women's history " and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France.

In 1878, Ephraim Shay perfected his Shay locomotive, which was particularly effective in its ability to climb steep grades, maneuver sharp turns and manage imperfections in railroad tracks.

Cadillac was home to the Michigan Iron Works Company, which manufactured the Shay locomotive for a short time in the early 1880s.

The British A4 class steam locomotive No. 4496 ( renumbered 60008 ) Golden Shuttle was renamed Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1946.

This steam locomotive dating from the 1930s still operates, carrying both freight and tourists. As of 1999, there was a total of 317 kilometres of ( narrow gauge ) rail line in Eritrea.

This locomotive could haul 30 tons of coal up a hill at, and was the first successful flanged-wheel adhesion locomotive: its traction depended only on the contact between its flanged wheels and the rail.

A six-wheeled locomotive was built for the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway in 1817 but it was soon withdrawn from service because of damage to the cast iron rails.

A further locomotive was supplied to Scott's Pit railroad at Llansamlet, near Swansea in 1819 but it too was soon withdrawn, apparently because it was under-boilered and also because of damage to the track.

In September 1825 the works at Forth Street, Newcastle completed the first locomotive for the new railway: originally named Active, it was soon renamed Locomotion.

It was the first time passenger traffic had been run on a steam locomotive railway.

Stephenson had ascertained by experiments at Killingworth that half of the power of the locomotive was consumed by a gradient as little as 1 in 260.

The inquiry into the accident found that the primary cause of the crash was " the very unsatisfactory condition of the permanent way ", being the poor fastening of the track, causing the track to spread and allowing the left front wheel of the locomotive to come off the rail.

It was also used in single-bank locomotive engines, and is still used for marine propulsion engines and marine auxiliary generators.

A locomotive was named after Josiah Wedgwood and ran on the Churnet Valley Railway.

Karl Benz was born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant, in Karlsruhe, Baden, which is part of modern Germany, to Josephine Vaillant and a locomotive driver, Johann George Benz, whom she married a few months later.

Although the locomotive hauled a train of 10 tons of iron and 70 passengers in five wagons over nine miles ( 14 km ), it was too heavy for the cast iron rails used at the time.

The locomotive only ran three trips before it was abandoned.

The first commercially successful steam locomotive was Matthew Murray's rack locomotive, Salamanca, built for the narrow gauge Middleton Railway in 1812.

This was followed in 1813 by the Puffing Billy built by Christopher Blackett and William Hedley for the Wylam Colliery Railway, the first successful locomotive running by adhesion only.

Following the construction of a prototype locomotive and test track in a quarry near Bern, the Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn opened on 22 May 1871.

The former was opened in the 1840s by the North Midland, Midland Counties and Birmingham & Derby railway companies to meet their joint requirements for locomotive, carriage and wagon construction and maintenance.

The latter site was opened in the 1860s by the Midland Railway as part of a reorganisation of facilities in Derby and left the original site to concentrate on locomotive manufacture and repair.

Crewe Works was opened in 1840 by the Grand Junction Railway and by the time of grouping was the locomotive works for the LNWR.

Doncaster locomotive works opened in 1853, replacing temporary facilities at Boston.

The last steam locomotive was withdrawn in 1975, in 1986 the maximum speed on the railways was raised to 160 km / h, and in 1992 the Madrid-Seville high speed line opened, beginning the process of building a nationwide high speed network.

The Vulcan Foundry was opened in 1831 and later developed into one of the world's foremost locomotive manufacturers.

The first Norwegian locomotive railway, Hovedbanen between Oslo and Eidsvoll, was opened on 1 September 1854.

The railway came to Ashford when the South Eastern Railway's London to Dover main line opened between 1842 and 1844, and the company established its locomotive works here.

The L & CR opened a motive power depot and a locomotive repair facility here in 1839, the former of which appears to have been particularly accident prone.

However, the switch from steam to diesel-electric locomotive production opened the door to new competitors.

Steam locomotive repair sheds were opened in 1877 at the Newton Heath Motive Power Depot ( now Traction Maintenance Depot ), coded 26A by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

The locomotive works was situated at Gorton, Manchester, opened in 1849.

A line from Stepney ( now called Limehouse ) linking it with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bow was opened in 1849, at which time the line was converted to steam locomotive operation, and the track converted to.

Bow was also the site of the headquarters of the North London Railway who opened their locomotive and carriage workshops in 1853.

The London and Brighton Railway opened a small locomotive shed and servicing facility at to the north-west of the station for locomotives on the Shoreham line, in May 1840, and another, adjacent to the locomotive works for main line locomotives, the following year.

On the site of the goods yard a diesel locomotive fuelling depot was opened in the mid 1960s.

A strike by Irish locomotive men in 1933 delayed completion and it was not until 22 January 1934 that the new lines opened for regular service.

The L car joins the Pioneer, the first locomotive to operate in Chicago ; a redesigned exhibition space to showcase the car and locomotive opened on September 30, 2006, as part of a larger remodeling project.

* October – Portland Company's locomotive erecting shops opened for business.

If, as he opened his engine ’ s throttle, the rate of increase of the “ chug chug ” sound was out of sync with the forward progress of his locomotive, he knew his wheels were slipping.