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Keswick. New Locomotive Engine Print E-mail
SATURDAY 25th JULY 1863

KESWICK
There was quite a commotion here on Thursday last, in consequence of the
arrival of a locomotive engine from Cockermouth intended for the railway
works, drawn through the town by fourteen horses, and decorated with
evergreens and banners, headed by the Keswick Drum and Fife Band playing "
See the Conquering Hero come." Being the first locomotive ever in Keswick
both young and old turned out to have a look (many of them for the first
time) at so wonderful a piece of machinery. The engine was put upon the
rails at Browfoot Cutting, and is intended to draw the empty waggons up the
incline from near Crosthwaite Church.
 
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