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 | | Fuel and water were carried on the locomotive, in the form of side tanks beside each boiler for the water, and bunkers for the fuel above them. |
 | | Early Fairlie locomotives were rather unsuccessful, examples being built for the Neath and Brecon Railway and the Queensland Railway in Australia being notably unsuccessful, in the latter case resulting in locomotives being returned to the builder. |
 | | However, in 1869 Fairlie's company built a locomotive, named Little Wonder (Fairlie was not an individual given to modesty) for the Ffestiniog Railway, a slate hauler in north Wales, and this one proved to be an outstanding success. |
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