This is the second oldest surviving railway locomotive in the world and can be found at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. George Stephenson was appointed as engine-wright at ...
A festival celebrating railway heritage is set to launch in the North East with a spectacular open-air event in Bishop… | ...
ART lovers across the globe are being asked to choose their favourite UK railway-themed artworks. This is part of the celebration of 200 years of the modern railway. A unique partnership between art ...
Arts Minister Sir Chris Bryant MP said: "From the first puff of smoke from a locomotive ... UK railway art will be announced on June 9, the birthday of rail pioneer George Stephenson.
George Jnr was Lord Mayor ... he was run over and fatally injured by Robert Stephenson's pioneering locomotive Rocket on the Manchester-Liverpool Railway. There is also a series of graves ...
A new children's book called Wrong Tracks centres on Edward Entwistle, a Lancashire lad from Tyldesley who drove the Rocket.
Tragically, the driver of one of the trains was killed while the official railway inspectorate report into the accident ... They were taken to George Stephenson technical college, just a few hundred ...
In 2025, the United Kingdom celebrates Railway 200, a massive public awareness campaign marking 200 years of railroading ...