Timothy Hackworth
Timothy Hackworth ( born December 22, 1786 in Wylam near Newcastle upon Tyne, † July 7, 1850 in Shildon ) is one of the first designers of steam locomotives an important figure in railway history. Its merit lies in the fact that he established the steam engine as a reliable machine.
Life
Hackworth was a skilled blacksmith, to Christopher Blackett in 1808 stopped to work in the coal mine of Wylam. There he helped William Hedley for the construction of the " Puffing Billy". Hackworth was later a long time for the Stockton and Darlington Railway operates.
According to one version is reported that Hackworth together with George Stephenson, the first locomotive and the later " Locomotion " for the Stockton and Darlington Railway built.
The other and more likely published version says that the initiator of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, Edward Pease, Hackworth stopped, as father and son Stephenson announced locomotives were not timely complete and Hackworth before the offer Stephenson to work in his workshop in Newcastle upon Tyne had declined. The Society of the Stockton and Darlington Railway taught for Hackworth close to an apartment in Darlington also has its own workshop in Shildon with 20 workers a.
Meanwhile, since George Stephenson had to let a work order for the planned but then unapproved Liverpool and Manchester Railway rest, the first locomotive for the Stockton and Darlington Railway was completed but by Stephenson.
A year after the maiden voyage of the boiler of the Locomotion exploded, killing the machinists, it has been repaired by Hackworth and thereby receive a greater and greater boiler heating surface by curved flue pipes. Other locomotives supplied by Stephenson exploded and made operational again by Hackworth. 1827 Hackworth presented his first locomotive finished, the six-wheeled " Royal George ," the admiring "the best machine in the world " designated Stephenson's brother John. It must be regarded primarily as Hackworth 's credit that the Stockton and Darlington Railway could have about 1830 more than 19 operational locomotives.
1829 Hackworth took part in the tender for a locomotive for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. , The famous race of Rainhill was discharged. However, built by Hackworth locomotive " Sans Pareil " remained after a promising start with unexploded cylinders are. Ironically, these cylinders had been poured into the workshop of Robert Stephenson, whose also participating " Rocket" winner of the race was. Nevertheless, the " Sans Pareil " was incorporated into the service of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
1833 Hackworth retired from the service of the Stockton and Darlington Railway locomotive and founded his own company " Soho Foundry " in Shildon. There, he successfully built mainly freight locomotives for various railways in England and Europe. In 1836 he built the first locomotive in Shildon, in Russia ( St. Petersburg ) and drove 1837 ' Samson ' for the Albion Mines Railway in Nova Scotia, one of the first locomotives in Canada.
His last locomotive, a 1A1 engine that once again the name ' Sans Pareil ' wore was a very advanced design with a partially welded instead of riveted boiler. She ran from 1849 to the London and North Western Railway ( LNWR ), later successful in North Eastern Railway until 1881.
The former train station Shildon housed until recently the " Timothy Hackworth Victorian & Railway Museum ", which is currently being reorganized as "The National Railway Museum " in Shildon, County Durham.
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Hackworth has as the first established the steam engine as a reliable machine has a secure place in the history of iron Bahns.
( " Hackworth HAS to assured place in railway history as the first to establish_link the steam locomotive as a thoroughly reliable machine" )