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Stephenson's Rocket
The original Rocket on display at the National Railway Museum, York.
This engine brought together a number of design innovations in the one locomotive and is arguably the most important invention of the 19th Century, a proof of concept that has led to so much.
Rocket won the Rainhill Trials on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway on 15 September 1830, but during the initial procession from Liverpool to Manchester, ran down and killed William Huskisson, MP for Liverpool at Parkside.
1 October 2019
(2799)
Stephenson's Rocket
The original Rocket on display at the National Railway Museum, York.
This engine brought together a number of design innovations in the one locomotive and is arguably the most important invention of the 19th Century, a proof of concept that has led to so much.
Rocket won the Rainhill Trials on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway on 15 September 1830, but during the initial procession from Liverpool to Manchester, ran down and killed William Huskisson, MP for Liverpool at Parkside.
1 October 2019
(2799)