Stephensons' Rocket and the Rainhill Trials

George and Robert Stephenson's Rocket, is an enduring silhouette in railway history. Rocket was built to take part in The Rainhill Trials, a competition to find a locomotive design to pull trains on the world's first passenger line, the Liverpool and Manchester. The trials caught the public's imagination and its victor, Rocket, became a sensation.

• | By (Author): Richard Gibbon
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• | Publication Date: Sep 10, 2010
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 56 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0747808031
• | ISBN-13: 9780747808039