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.

I was fascinated by his claims that he drove Rocket, the steam locomotive designed by Robert Stephenson, at the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830. The more I tried to find out ...

Copy of the World's First Steam Railway Locomotive, built by the Coalbrookdale Co., 26 years before Stephenson's Rocket Comments are closed for this object What's this? Most of the content on A ...

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 ...

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 ...

A NEW home has been confirmed for the artefacts from the Rainhill Trials exhibition. A huge part of Rainhill's history, the locomotive trials was a competition that took place in the village in 1829, ...

in which the Stephensons competed with their famous Rocket in 1829. The prize was £500 and a contract for the winner’s locomotive to be used on the new Liverpool & Manchester Railway.