Key facts
- Power type
- Steam
- Builder
- Robert Stephenson and Company
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Encyclopedic overview
Stephenson's Rocket is an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement. It was built for and won the Rainhill Trials of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), held in October 1829 to show that improved locomotives would be more efficient than stationary steam engines.
Rocket was designed and built by Robert Stephenson in 1829, and built at the Forth Street Works of his company in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stephenson's Rocket” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.