The Rocket was designed and built by George Stephenson with the help of his ... to find the best locomotive engine for a railway line that was being built to serve these two English cities.

The brilliant inventor is also the man who created the famous Rocket Stirling Engine ... And great minds such as locomotive pioneer Robert Stephenson are among those people we should thank.

The wheels turn and the train moves off down the track. Woman 1: Steam engines ran on the rail network in Britain for almost 150 years… and it all began with Stephenson's Rocket. There was a ...

a competition to find the best passenger steam locomotive in Britain.On the 150th anniversary of the trials, replicas of its famous winner - Stephenson's 'Rocket' - and two of its competitors are ...

A presentation Robert Stephenson and Co, Locomotive Builders ... including Locomotion No 1 and Rocket, and went on to supply locomotives across the world. We are delighted to be able to celebrate ...

In 1829, he and his son Robert designed the Rocket locomotive, which hit a top speed of 29mph (46km/h). In 2011, George Stephenson was honoured with a blue plaque at Chesterfield railway station ...

A MERSEYSIDE school has become home to a replica of the famous Stephenson’s Rocket steam locomotive – 180 years after it triumphed at the Rainhill Trials. The wicker structure, which was built ...

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT STEPHENSON M.P. D.C.L. F.R.S. etc. LATE PRESIDENT OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS WHO DIED 12th OCTOBER A.D. 1859 AGED 56 YEARS. In 1948 a representation of the ...

The world's oldest surviving train station, Liverpool Road Station, stands as a proud testament to the dawn of the railway age in Manchester, United Kingdom. Opened on September 15, 1830, it marks ...