To demonstrate that the technology was fit for purpose and to select between the various competing options, on April 25, 1829 ...

Getty Images The engine was designed and built by George Stephenson It will joins other famous steam locomotives on show at the museum, including Mallard and the Flying Scotsman. The Rocket ...

A steam locomotive ... thought. The George Stephenson-built Killingworth Billy was believed to have been constructed in 1826. However, a new investigation of the engine, on show at North Shields ...

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.

200 YEARS OF BRITAIN'S RAILWAYS: Carshalton's Honeywood Museum hosts local transport historian and photographer John Parkin ...

At noon on New Year's Day, a blast of train whistles at the station will signal the start of a year marking 200 years since ...