FAMILIES in North Yorkshire are on track for a week of half-term fun at one of York’s top tourist attractions. The National Railway Museum (NRM) has welcomed the return of the world’s only working ...

QUESTION: Why is George Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 regarded as the first steam locomotive? What about Richard Trevithick’s Penydarren? Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 is significant because it was ...

WHEN Philip Sampson told his younger brother Keith he was going to give him a “super model”, this may not have been quite what he expected. In fact, the younger brother was blown away by what he got.

A replica of a historic steam engine has completed a recreation of the maiden journey on the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR) to mark the line's 200th anniversary. Locomotion No 1, a 50-year-old ...

He was called the greatest engineer of the 19th century and his work probably changed the world of railways as we now know it. The brilliant inventor is also the man who created the famous Rocket ...

The boom in the cotton industry in the north-west of England in the early 19th century quickly demonstrated the inadequacy of the existing infrastructure of canals and roads that were used to carry ...

Locomotion No.1 was built by Robert Stephenson and Company, a Newcastle-based firm named after the son of "father of the railways" George Stephenson The first steam locomotive to haul a ...

1. That was also the occasion of the first railway passenger fatality, when William Huskisson fell under the wheels of Stephenson’s Rocket. 2. He wasn’t the first man killed by a train. That was on ...

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