The locomotive steam engine can be traced back to an Englishman by the name of Richard Trevithick. At the turn of the 19th ...

The locomotive managed ... It was to be several years before steam locomotion became commercially viable, but there was no denying the fact that it was Trevithick and not George Stephenson who ...

Stockton and Darlington Railway 200 celebrations commence as Locomotion Number 1 has been returned to Hopetown, this week.

At the base are figures of four angels who carry scrolls on which are outline drawings of Trevithick's great inventions: the tramroad locomotive 1803, the Cornish pumping engine, the steam dredger ...

THREE railway rockstars have gone on display this week at Darlington’s Hopetown in the first major attraction of the Stockton & Darlington Railway’s 200th anniversary celebrations, and today is “Super ...

videoThe invention of the railway A description of the major scientific invention of the railway by George Stephenson building upon the first steam locomotive invented by Richard Trevithick.

THREE railway rockstars go on display today at Darlington’s Hopetown museum as the 200th anniversary celebrations of the ...

The afternoon then saw the band leading the adults in Trevithick's Dance, before the grand parade of steam featuring a host of steam engines and rollers. Trevithick's Dance (Image: Aimee John ...