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 ...

The Rocket was designed and built by George Stephenson with the help of his son, Robert, and Henry Booth, for the 1829 Rainhill Trials. The Trials were held by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway ...

He studied in Newcastle and Edinburgh and then became manager of the firm of Robert Stephenson & Co, founded for him by his father, and later spent some time in Columbia on mining projects. On 17th ...