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Rocket arrives at Shildon's Locomotion rail museum - BBC
The world-renowned locomotive Rocket has arrived at a County Durham museum. The engine designed by George and Robert Stephenson in Newcastle in 1829 will go on display at Locomotion museum in ...
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Revealed: How the idea that the Stockton and Darlington line was the 'world's first public railway' is a MYTH (created by a local newspaper journalist) | Daily Mail Online
The Locomotion No. 1 on display in the Locomotion museum is not 1820s vintage or even from the 1830s - it's an amalgam of parts, with the long-working engine frozen in the configuration it had in ...
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Locomotion Number One to return to Darlington for exhibition
PenyDarren (Image: AMGUEDDFA CYMRU- MUSEUM WALES) Locomotion Number One has strong ties to Darlington and the North East, having famously pulled the first passenger train on the S&DR line in 1825.
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County Durham railway museum to bloom with £20,000 company support
Banks Group has made a donation to the Locomotion museum in Shildon. Comments. Tony Henderson. 16:18, 20 Dec 2024 Updated 17:52, 20 Dec 2024.
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Locomotion garden blooms with £20,000 grant | Bdaily
The Locomotion museum in Shildon, County Durham, the very spot where a small steam locomotive called Locomotion No. 1 coupled up with a train on 27 September 1825 and changed the world, is developing ...