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 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 ...