Naming of 'Salamanca' locomotive

Schedule

Sun Jun 21 2026 at 10:00 am to 04:00 pm

UTC+01:00
Location

The Station, Moor Road, Hunslet, Ls10 2jq Leeds, United Kingdom | Leeds, EN

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As part of our celebrations of the 200th Anniversary of the death of Matthew Murray - who designed and built the world's first first commercially successful steam locomotive - we are naming one of our newly restored diesel locomotives 'Salamanca' to honour that 1812 built pioneer.
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The Station, Moor Road, Hunslet, Ls10 2jq Leeds, United Kingdom, Middleton Railway, Moor Road, Leeds, LS10 2JQ, United Kingdom

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