The D&KR waited until August 1833 before inviting nine firms to tender for six identical engines to enable part-swapping for delivery by 1 May 1834.

The seven firms replied that timescales were too short, given the infancy of locomotive engineering with manufacturers on a steep learning curve.

It was transported by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company at a cost of £21 plus for £7/10/- for the tender with Forresters' Vauxhall on the same sailing.

At Dublin they were taken through the streets on a temporary "portable railway" before 50 men hauled them up to rail level at Westland Row.

[6] On 9 October 1834 Hibernia hauled a train of eight carriages, which was the first to traverse the complete length of the line carrying members of the public.