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  • The Stourbridge Lion: The First Roar Of Steam… Stateside

    The Stourbridge Lion: The First Roar Of Steam… Stateside

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    Robin Jones

    The United States is renowned as a world leader in technology, and sent the first manned space missions to the moon half a century ago. Yet the first steam railway locomotive to run in the US was built in Britain – at a foundry in the West Midlands.

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