Puffing Billy
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Puffing Billy may refer to:
- Puffing Billy Railway, a narrow gauge tourist railway near Melbourne, Australia
- Puffing Billy (locomotive)Puffing Billy (locomotive)Puffing Billy is an early railway steam locomotive, constructed in 1813-1814 by engineer William Hedley, enginewright Jonathan Forster and blacksmith Timothy Hackworth for Christopher Blackett, the owner of Wylam Colliery near Newcastle upon Tyne, in the United Kingdom. It is the world's oldest...
, an early steam locomotive - Puffing Billy Tournament, a board gameBoard gameA board game is a game which involves counters or pieces being moved on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules. Games may be based on pure strategy, chance or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve...
convention focusing on train gameTrain gameA train game or railway game is a board game that represents the construction and operation of railways. Train games tend to be highly involved hobby games that take several hours to play...
s - Puffin' Billy, a famous piece of light music by Edward WhiteEdward White (composer)Edward George White was a British composer of light music whose compositions including Runaway Rocking Horse , Paris Interlude , Puffin' Billy and Telegoons became familiar as radio and television theme tunes.White was born in London, and was largely self-taught...
- Puffing Billy, military jargon for the M67 Immersion Heater