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
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
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
Stephenson's Rocket
…improved locomotives would be more efficient than stationary steam engines. Rocket was designed and built by Robert Stephenson in 1829, and built at the Forth Street Works of his company in Newcastle upon Tyne. Though Rocket was not the first steam locomotive, it was the first to bring together several innovations that…
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