In 1829, Robert Stephenson’s Rocket locomotive won a competition to power the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. It was engineered and built at Stephenson’s iron works in Newcastle upon Tyne with advice from Robert’s father George. The engine had a maximum speed of 45 kph (28 mph.) The opening ceremony for the L&MR was held at Liverpool on 15 September 1830. Unfortunately, the Liverpool Member of Parliament, William Huskisson, while trying to lobby the Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington, fell out of one of the carriages and was run over by the train and killed. This Blender model is based primarily on the version of the engine in the National Railway Museum, York.
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