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This applies not only to trackwork and operational methods, but also to motive power, and it will be recalled that the first steam locomotive to run on rails (howbeit, tramplates) was Trevithick's Penydarren engine of 1804.

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I cheated on the zucchino. Normally I would say zucchini, but I couldn't bring myself to write that when there was only one of them. (Gimme a martinus!) I should have added, by the way, that this is the vegetable that's called a courgette in England.