The Invicta Engine Set on Plinth is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. Engine.
The Invicta Engine Set on Plinth
- WRENN ID
- empty-niche-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Engine
- Address
- The Invicta Engine Set on Plinth, Dane John
- OS grid reference
- TR 149 574
- Coordinates
- 51.27596, 1.08026
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Invicta engine, designed and constructed by George Stephenson, is set on a cement plinth. This engine was entered as No 12, with the Rocket being No 11. On May 3rd, 1830, it drew the first train on the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway. The engine is positioned on standard gauge lines.
Local climate
The Invicta Engine Set on Plinth sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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