Official : Billy is the world’s oldest standard gauge loco
Jul 01, 2018
2 minutes
THE Stephenson Railway Museum’s star attraction – Killingworth Colliery 0-4-0 the Killingworth Billy (or simply Billy ) – can claim to be the world’s oldest surviving standard gauge locomotive after an archaeological survey revealed the loco was 10 years older than originally thought.
It had previously been believed Billy
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