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A woman whose parents and grandparents were murdered in a massacre at a country house dinner party in the 1980s has told of her relief that one of the killers has lost a Parole Board bid to be ...

A sculpture of George Stephenson’s miner’s lamp will be unveiled later this month. Standing 3.6m high, it will be located at the South Gate/West Moor junction, close to Dial Cottage which was ...

Plans by railway pioneer George Stephenson for the world's first passenger line to use locomotives have been found by an archive assistant. The 1822 notebook of the Stockton and Darlington Railway ...

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 ...

“Winning an award is really motivating and encourages you to push the boundaries further with more intensive and innovative research efforts.” Find out more about the George Stephenson Gold Medal ...

Northerners and where the North starts explained - and it's nothing to do with geography ...

Michael Mosley, Cassie Newland and Mark Miodownik describe the scientific achievements of Richard Trevithick and George Stephenson. In 1801 Richard Trevithick built the first steam locomotive.

George Lampeas and Vasilis Pasialis won the 2013 George Stephenson Gold Medal for their paper ‘A hybrid framework for nonlinear dynamic simulations including full-field optical measurements and image ...