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Stephenson’s Rocket and the Rainhill Trials - Shire Library Richard Gibbon
Stephenson’s Rocket and the Rainhill Trials - Shire Library
Richard Gibbon
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.
56 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.)
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 10, 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9780747808039 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Pages | 56 |
| Dimensions | 149 × 209 × 6 mm · 140 g |
| Language | English |