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Explores the history of George Forrester, a little known but influential locomotive engineer. George Forrester's 2-2-2 Vauxhall built for the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, Liverpool and Manchester Railway locomotive Swiftsure 1834, Samson of 1831, sector plate and dog clutch on a contemporary model of the Middleton Railway locomotive (in the collection of the Leeds Industrial Museum), Nicholas Wood's slip eccentric valve gear applied to a Killingworth locomotive, Rocket's valve gear, Swiftsure's valve gear, footnotes |