The Rocket was designed and built by George Stephenson with the help of his ... to find the best locomotive engine for a railway line that was being built to serve these two English cities.

The wheels turn and the train moves off down the track. Woman 1: Steam engines ran on the rail network in Britain for almost 150 years… and it all began with Stephenson's Rocket. There was a ...

Copy of the World's First Steam Railway Locomotive, built by the Coalbrookdale Co., 26 years before Stephenson's RocketThe Coalbrookdale Company built the world's first steam railway locomotive to ...

a competition to find the best passenger steam locomotive in Britain.On the 150th anniversary of the trials, replicas of its famous winner - Stephenson's 'Rocket' - and two of its competitors are ...

in which the Stephensons competed with their famous Rocket in 1829. The prize was £500 and a contract for the winner’s locomotive to be used on the new Liverpool & Manchester Railway.