Early Steam Locomotives Codexery

LDE – Comet

First locomotive delivered to Saxony, built 1835–1838.

Comet was one of four early locomotives built for the Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company by Rothwell and Company in Manchester. Delivered to Leipzig in November 1836 in 15 crates, it was the first locomotive to reach Saxony. After reassembly, testing began on 28 March 1837, and it was used in constructing the railway.

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