Example sentences of "the first steam [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There Stephenson built the ‘ Rocket ’ , the first steam engine . |
| 2 | In the expansive atmosphere of the turn of the century Catalan and Valencian manufacturers were doing precisely this : in 1790 the first steam engine came to Barcelona . |
| 3 | The Flying Scotsman , on a run from London to Scotland in the 1930's , became the first steam engine ever to reach 100 miles an hour . |
| 4 | A. B. Chalmers of Inverness started out like the shopkeepers in Inveraray with a delivery barrow , graduating to a pony and trap for outlying districts and in 1907 introducing the first steam lorry to the Highlands . |
| 5 | The 100 ton engine and tender set a record in the 1930's as the first steam loco to clock 100 miles an hour . |
| 6 | In the mid-1980s this connection showed its value even more when the Centre services the annual Manchester-Southport steam specials from 1985 to 1989 , the first steam locomotive to be serviced being appropriately enough , a Black Five , No. 44932 . |
| 7 | The star of this anniversary show , however , will be the National Railway Museum 4-4-0 ‘ City of Truro ’ No. 3440 which made world history in 1904 as the first steam locomotive to attain 100 miles per hour while descending nearby Wellington Bank ! |
| 8 | BULLIED Pacific No. 34027 TAW Valley is set to become the first steam locomotive to depart from London 's Waterloo with a passenger train in 25 years . |
| 9 | This acclaimed the accolade of being the first steam locomotive on the railway ! |
| 10 | 0-4-0T Cadbury Number 2 was the first steam locomotive to work on the Severn Valley Railway 's Kidderminster Station Coal Yard Branch Line . |
| 11 | THE FIRST steam gala that the Birmingham Railway Museum at Tyseley has organised in several years , took place over the weekend of Saturday-Sunday November 28/29th , and was acclaimed as an outstanding success in every respect . |