It achieved a top speed of 30 miles an hour… and kick-started a frenzy of railway building. Woman 2: Rocket inspired all future steam locomotives… and in just over 100 years, Mallard ...

The Stephenson Steam Railway in North Tyneside is inviting visitors to enjoy a new hands-on driving experience, taking ...

So who built that train? Aunt Maya: A man called George Stephenson. He designed many different steam engines. But it was his son, Robert, who built the most famous early one. It was called Rocket.

“My book tells the story of Edward Entwistle, a Lancashire lad who claimed to have driven the world-famous steam locomotive, Rocket, on the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railwa ...