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

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 Rocket is currently on display in the Station Hall at the National Railway Museum in York Robert Stephenson's world-famous Rocket locomotive is to be hidden from public view at the National ...

Stephenson's Rocket ran on the world's first inter-city ... The original 1829 early steam locomotive is to be displayed at the York museum from Thursday. The engine ran on the world's first ...

Stephenson’s Rocket won the Rainhill Trials in 1829, a competition to decide on the best mode of transport for the railway. Steam power reached its peak in 1938 with the locomotive Mallard ...

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 ...

Lancashire to mark the 150th anniversary of the world's first inter-city railway and the Stephensons' legendary Rocket locomotive. On display are 'celebrity' engines from across the country ...