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Brass plaque № 49127

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To the memory of two great engineers Richard Trevithick c.1771 - d.1833 inventor of the high pressure steam engine and John Urpeth Rastrick b.1780 - d.1856 great railway engineer. Near this spot in Hazledine's Foundry Rastrick built in 1808 to Trevithick's design the world's first passenger locomotive engine. Erected Nov. 1949.

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