Robert Stephenson and Company was a locomotive manufacturing company founded in 1823 in Forth Street, Newcastle upon Tyne in England. It was the first company in the world created specifically to buil
Works offices in South Street, Newcastle
A modern replica of Rocket
A modern replica of Adler, an example of the company's 2-2-2 design
Folkstone, a Crampton type locomotive, in 1851
Stephenson's Rocket
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Stephenson's Rocket is an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement. It was built for and won the Rainhill Trials of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, held in October 1829 to show that imp
Robert Stephenson and Company
…in England. It was the first company in the world created specifically to build railway engines. Famous early locomotives were Locomotion No. 1 and Rocket. By 1899, 3,000 locomotives had been built at the Forth Street site, and a new company was formed, Robert Stephenson and Company Limited, and the…
A contemporary drawing of Rocket
A replica Rocket and coach at the Rocket 150 event
Rocket as preserved in the Science Museum, London.
A closer view