George Stephenson did not invent the railway or the locomotive, but he did first put the breath of its life into the latter.

When the very paper you are now perusing, gentle reader, has traveled tens or hundreds of miles upon the iron roa.d drawn by the locomotive engine at the rate of thirty miles an hour, without ...

ON August 12, 1848, a century ago, George Stephenson died at his home, Tapton House, Chesterfield, at the age of sixty-seven, and was buried in Trinity Church in that town. For some years he had ...

Image: Public Domain This wasn't any old locomotive, either. It was Rocket, designed by Robert Stephenson with input from his father George, and arguably the most celebrated locomotive ever built.

The locomotive which made the 25-mile journey on that day was George Stephenson’s Locomotive No 1. Stephenson and his brother, James, rode on the footplate of the brightly painted engine.

Graysons Solicitors joined community partners and heritage organisations at Holy Trinity Church on Newbold Road to mark the ...

ON January 9, 1843, William Hedley, one of the pioneers of the locomotive and iron railway, died at Burnhopeside Hall, near Lanchester, Co. Durham, and was afterwards buried at his birthplace ...

The first steam locomotive to haul a passenger-carrying train on a public railway is set to go on display in Derby. Locomotion No.1 was built 200 years ago by Robert Stephenson and Company, a ...