Robert Stephenson's Rocket
Robert Stephenson's Rocket
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Attribution: William M. Connolley, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
The Rocket built in 1829 in Newcastle upon Tyne marks the key advance in railway technology. The locomotive was built to compete in the Rainhill Trials held to choose between competing designs. Achieving a speed of 29mph the performance showed it to be the most successful contestant and established the basic architecture that carried through to the last British steam locomotives built in the 1960s
Postcode - SW7 2DD
Robert Stephenson's Rocket
51.497295,
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SW7 2DD
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