The great lightness of this engine, (it is about one half lighter than Mr. Stephenson’s) its compactness, and its beautiful workmanship, excited universal admiration; a sentiment speedily changed into perfect wonder, by its truly marvellous performances. It was resolved to try first its speed merely; that is at what rate it would go, carrying only its compliment of cote and water, with Messrs Braithwaite and Erickson to manage it. Almost at once, it darted off at the amazing velocity of twenty-eight miles an hour...
Mechanics Magazine, Vol. 12 (1830).
The Novelty
locomotive was built by John Braithwaite and John Erickson at Braithwaite’s
workshop in London specifically to be entered in the Rainhill Trials for the
new Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1829. Unfortunately, they only had
seven weeks notice of the trails in which to built their engine. While the Novelty
was admired for its speed, engineering and workmanship, it suffered several
breakdowns during the trials and never completed the competition.
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