Blue plaque to be unveiled in honour of city locomotive builder - video Dailymotion

Blue plaque to be unveiled in honour of city locomotive builder

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00:00A blue plaque honouring a pioneering Wakefield-born industrial locomotive builder is to be unveiled in the city.

00:09Thomas Peckett was born in Wakefield in 1834 and went on to be the founder of Peckett & Sons.

00:17The company manufactured a range of railway vehicles from their works in Bristol for around 80 years,

00:24some of which have been popularised in model form by Hornby.

00:28Three Peckett locomotives were used at St John's Colliery in Normanton to transport coal.

00:36The Tom Pudding system of transporting coal was also unique to Wakefield.

00:41The plaque will be unveiled as part of wider celebration of the city's rail heritage at an event organised by Wakefield Civic Society.