Planet Carriage

At the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, the replica of Stephenson's Planet locomotive takes tourists for a ride in carriages like this one.

Stephenson's Planet

 

In November 1830 the Planet locomotive set a speed record travelling 30 miles (50 Km) in one hour. It was the ninth engine sold to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway by Stephenson’s company just one year after his Rocket engine won the completion to supply the L&MR. The Planet incorporated several advances in design and engineering. It was the first to use horizontal cylinders mounted internally. In total Stephenson built six Planets for the railway and a further three were made by another company using Stephenson supplied drawings.

My model is based mainly on the replica made in 1992 by the Friends of Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, but without some of the modern instruments and devices used on the replica.