This year marks the 200th anniversary of the opening of the world’s first locomotive works, Stephenson’s works in Newcastle. To celebrate the event, the Robert Stephenson Trust is holding an ...

He was called the greatest engineer of the 19th century and his work probably changed the world of railways as we now know it. The brilliant inventor is also the man who created the famous Rocket ...

Plans to tear down derelict sections of the historic Stephenson locomotive works in Newcastle risk causing "irreversible harm”, a heritage body has claimed. The Victorian Society says it has serious ...

It was on this day 235 years ago that George Stephenson, regarded as the ‘Father of Railways’, died. Mr Stephenson was a pioneering railway engineer and inventor of the Rocket, the most famous early ...

An MP has spoken of his fresh hopes that plans to move a famous locomotive from the town where it has been displayed for 160 years could be blocked. Did you know with a Digital subscription to ...

One of the "longest standing early railway mysteries" has been solved with the pedigree of a locomotive proven to be false, researchers have claimed. The Lyon engine was said to be designed by George ...

A steam locomotive has been declared one of the oldest in the world after researchers discovered it was built 10 years earlier than originally thought. The George Stephenson-built Killingworth Billy ...