George and Robert Stephenson's Rocket, is arguably the most
enduring silhouette in railway history. But why was Rocket that
special? And why does the surviving locomotive look so unlike the
striking yellow image that we are familiar with from books, postage
stamps and the five pound note? Rocket was built to take part in
The Rainhill Trials, the 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. It quickly became of symbol of
technological progress. The Stephensons' engine set the pattern for
future world steam locomotive development for the next 130 years.
But would the steam locomotive have developed differently if Rocket
had not won the trials? All these questions while exploring in
words and pictures the machine that became the metaphor for what is
seen as Britain's greatest gift to the industrial world: the steam
locomotive.
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