The Rocket was designed and built by George Stephenson ... for the 1829 Rainhill Trials. The Trials were held by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company, to find the best locomotive engine ...

On 17th June 1829 he married Frances Sanderson but they had no children. His steam engine Rocket ... locomotive was added at the base of the window and the inscription was altered to include his ...

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 ...

Copy of the World's First Steam Railway Locomotive, built by the Coalbrookdale Co., 26 years before Stephenson's Rocket Comments are closed for this object What's this? Most of the content on A ...