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 ...

replicas of its famous winner - Stephenson's 'Rocket' - and two of its competitors are rebuilt by modern day designers, and the trials are reconstructed in Hyde Park.

Ten locomotives were entered, running along a one-mile length of track at Rainhill in Lancashire; the winner was ‘Stephenson’s Rocket’, engineered by George Stephenson, who was duly granted ...

HALO Space wants to take people to the very edge of the atmosphere without the economic, social and environmental cost of building a big rocket. Space tourists have ... shown here in preliminary ...

With steam engines on wheels, we could travel faster than ever before. Woman 1: This is Stephenson's Rocket. In 1829 it won the Rainhill Trials… a competition to decide on the best mode of ...