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Stephenson Railway Museum, North Shields. October is hurtling by at lightning speed which means if you want to acknowledge it or not, Christmas is now just around the corner.
Making dreams come true at just £5 a time has to be a bit of a bargain. So there should be plenty of takers for the latest offer from the Stephenson Railway Museum in Middle Engine Lane in North ...
Stephenson Steam Railway – the North Tyneside-based heritage railway and museum has announced when it will open for the spring and summer season.
Geoff Woodward, museums manager at Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums, said 4001 is "coming home to Stephenson Railway". The museum is built on the site of Metro's former test track, where the ...
The world-famous Stephenson's Rocket is to go on show at the National Railway Museum for at least 10 years. The original 1829 early steam locomotive is to be displayed at the York museum from ...
Now Stephenson’s Rocket has joined legends of the steam age such as Mallard and Flying Scotsman as it goes on long-term display at the National Railway Museum in York.
Judith McNicol, director of the National Railway Museum, said: “Rocket joins the museum as a potent symbol of what can be achieved through science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).
Plans by railway pioneer George Stephenson for the world's first passenger line to use locomotives have been found by an archive assistant. The 1822 notebook of the Stockton and Darlington Railway ...
They were drawn from 11 public collections in the UK, including the National Railway Museum, Hopetown Darlington and The Postal Museum. Nearly 4,000 votes were cast, according to organisers.
A LEGENDARY train engineer was remembered at York’s National Railway Museum as visitors marked the 150th anniversary of his death by learning more about his life. Yesterday, museum staff put on ...
Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 is significant because it was the first steam locomotive to haul a passenger train on a public railway. It operated on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which ...
Stephenson's Rocket ran on the world's first inter-city passenger railway in 1830 The world-famous Stephenson's Rocket is to go on show at the National Railway Museum for at least 10 years. The ...