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 ...

One of its earliest customers was the railway pioneer George Stephenson, who used the oil in his famous steam engine Rocket when it took to the rails in 1829. Water in the Aire turned two wheels ...

Before the invention of steam engines, horses were used to move wagons and carriages. They continued to be used well into the 20th century. Stephenson’s Rocket won the Rainhill Trials in 1829 ...

Stephenson's Rocket ran on the world's first inter-city passenger railway in 1830 The world-famous Stephenson's Rocket is to go on show at the National Railway Museum for at least 10 years.

Billy hauled coal wagons to the River Tyne from the Killingworth Colliery where Mr Stephenson worked as an engineer. It left service in 1879 and was donated to the City of Newcastle in 1881 to ...

Though the Stephenson family from Parkersburg, Virginia, were special, their oxen and wagons were indistinguishable from the hundreds of others with hopes and dreams of prosperity in a new land.

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.