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When the very paper you are now perusing, gentle reader, has traveled tens or hundreds of miles upon the iron roa.d drawn by the locomotive ... self-made George Stephenson. Not only this, but ...
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.
Plans to tear down derelict sections of the historic Stephenson locomotive works in Newcastle ... of the workshops once used ...
Michael Mosley, Cassie Newland and Mark Miodownik describe the scientific achievements of Richard Trevithick and George Stephenson. In 1801 Richard Trevithick built the first steam locomotive.
A blue plaque celebrating the life of the Great Western Railway's first locomotive driver has been unveiled in Swindon. James 'Jim' Hurst, was appointed as the GWR's first locomotive shunter in ...
In the life of George Stephenson, the distinguished railroad engineer, it is stated that for a long long period of time the Duke of Wellington would not trust himself behind a locomotive.
A BLUE plaque has been unveiled to honour Great Western Railway's first locomotive driver. James 'Jim' Hurst, who worked with railway pioneers George Stephenson, Daniel Gooch, and Isambard Kingdom ...