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- 1. Cycloped horse-powered locomotive: Elijah Galloway· Public domain
what is it?
Cycloped was an early horse-powered locomotive, built by Thomas Shaw Brandreth of Liverpool, which competed unsuccessfully in the Rainhill trials of October 1829.
spec sheet
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- kind
- Horse
- traction
- unpowered
- builders
- Thomas Shaw Brandreth
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From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1147575, Wikipedia: Cycloped (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.