Stephenson's Rocket is an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement. It was built for and won the Rainhill Trials of the Liverpool and Manchester...

length of level track at Rainhill, in Lancashire (now Merseyside). Stephenson's Rocket was the only locomotive to complete the trials, and was declared...

each man. Stephenson's estimates and organising ability proved inferior to those of Locke and the board's dissatisfaction led to Stephenson's resignation...

Although George Stephenson's previous designs had been heavy four-coupled freight locomotives, Rocket was almost entirely new. Stephenson was an advocate...

Middleton Railway between Middleton and Leeds, England and it predated Stephenson's Rocket by 17 years. It was the first to have two cylinders. It was named...

supporters of the project including the Yorkshire Post, who said, "Stephenson's rocket will fire up HS2 at last". In November 2021, the Integrated Rail...

Hackworth's Sans Pareil and Stephenson's Rocket—it ultimately lost the competition in the trials. Stephenson's Rocket eventually won the trials, maintaining...

cylinder casting includes other features such as (in the case of Stephenson's Rocket) valve ports and mounting feet. The last big American locomotives...

the Audience.: 152  Stephenson made a comedy-sketch television pilot called Stephenson's Rocket, which was not taken up. Stephenson acted in Mel Brooks'...

George and Robert Stephenson's Rocket, the winner of the Rainhill Trials and the £500 prize money. Instead of the fire tube boiler of Rocket, Sans Pareil had...