QUESTION: Why is George Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 regarded as the first steam locomotive? What about Richard Trevithick’s Penydarren? Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 is significant because ...

A Tyldesley lad who claimed to have driven the world-famous steam locomotive, Rocket, takes centre stage in a new children’s book by popular Wigan author, Susan Brownrigg.

The pioneer George Stephenson, and the magic of the Rainhill Trials, are central to Susan Brownrigg’s joyous children’s book, ...

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 ...

where George Stephenson was born in. 1781. The colliery was the property of Christopher Blackett, a man with progressive ideas, who in 1804-5 had had a locomotive built at Gateshead to Treyithick ...

Entered by the L&MR’s Treasurer, Henry Booth, and its engineer, George Stephenson, and designed and built ... the first railway to rely exclusively on steam-powered locomotives, to be entirely ...

Perhaps the best know advocate of the steam locomotive was George Stephenson, and The Rainhill Story (1979) provides an insight into the challenges faced by George and Robert Stephenson in ...

Even though Trevithick invented the world's first railway locomotive, George Stephenson is widely regarded as the father of the railway. Stephenson built the first steam locomotive to carry ...

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.

Two special steam train events have been announced to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway.