• Robert Stephenson and Company was a locomotive manufacturing company founded in 1823 in Forth Street, Newcastle upon Tyne in England. It was the first...
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    19th century and a key component of the Industrial Revolution. Built by George and his son Robert's company Robert Stephenson and Company, the Locomotion...
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    Robert Stephenson FRS, HonFRSE, FRSA, DCL (Hon. causa) (16 October 1803 – 12 October 1859) was an English civil engineer and designer of locomotives. The...
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  • Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns Ltd (RSH) was a locomotive builder with works in North East England. The company was formed in September 1937, when Darlington...
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    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. Though...
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    Russell Crampton and built by various firms from 1846. The main British builders were Tulk and Ley and Robert Stephenson and Company. Notable features...
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    the engineering works of Robert Stephenson and Company in Newcastle upon Tyne. Afterwards he was employed in jobs in Glasgow and again in Newcastle, before...
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    locomotive. Locomotion No. 1, built by George Stephenson and his son Robert's company Robert Stephenson and Company, was the first steam locomotive to haul...
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    Planet (locomotive) (category Liverpool and Manchester Railway locomotives)
    1830 by Robert Stephenson and Company for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The ninth locomotive built for the L&MR, it was Stephenson's next major...
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    was a revolutionary 2-2-2 steam locomotive type introduced by Robert Stephenson and Company in 1833, as an enlargement of their 2-2-0 Planet type. The wheel...
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  • Locomotives of the Furness Railway (category Locomotives of pre-grouping British railway companies)
    1915 and sold to Workington Iron & Steel Company. No. 5 Moresby Hall An outside cylinder 0-6-0ST built in 1890 by Robert Stephenson and Company for the...
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    leading wheels. The configuration was briefly built by Robert Stephenson and Company for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Other equivalent classifications...
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    George Robert Stephenson (20 October 1819 – 26 October 1905) was a British civil engineer. Stephenson was born to Robert Stephenson Senior (brother of...
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    England, by Robert Stephenson and Company for the Camden and Amboy Railroad (C&A), the first railroad built in New Jersey. It was dismantled and then shipped...
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    James Kennedy (engineer) (category Locomotive builders and designers)
    met George Stephenson, who was then establishing his locomotive works, Robert Stephenson and Company, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Stephenson appointed Kennedy...
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    difficult to operate, and only gave fixed valve events. In 1841, two employees of Robert Stephenson and Company, draughtsman William Howe and pattern-maker William...
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  • The Robert Stephenson was an early, passenger train, tender locomotive operated by the Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company or LDE. The locomotive was delivered...
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    George Stephenson and his son, Robert, was the only one to successfully complete the journey and, consequently, Robert Stephenson and Company were awarded...
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    Locomotion No. 1 (category George Stephenson)
    pioneering railway engineers George and Robert Stephenson at their manufacturing firm, Robert Stephenson and Company. It became the first steam locomotive...
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    such a bridge, on condition that the company paid the N&BR £100,000 toward the construction cost. Robert Stephenson selected the double-deck configuration...
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  • Stockton and Darlington Railway in the 1820s and its later absorption into the North Eastern Railway; the establishment of Robert Stephenson and Company in...
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    LT&SR 79 Class (category Robert Stephenson and Company locomotives)
    by the LMS. The five delivered in 1925 were built by Nasmyth, Wilson and Company, with the other thirty built by the LMS's Derby Works. In 1947 the LMS...
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    broad gauge, it has a 2-2-2 wheel arrangement, developed by Robert Stephenson and Company in 1833, with a driving wheel measuring 1,829 millimetres (72...
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    Lancashire Witch (category Robert Stephenson and Company locomotives)
    Lancashire Witch was an early steam locomotive built by Robert Stephenson and Company in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1828. It was a development of Locomotion...
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    S&DJR 7F 2-8-0 (category Robert Stephenson and Company locomotives)
    built in 1914 and numbered 80–85 by the S&DJR. In 1925 an additional 5 were ordered from Robert Stephenson and Company in Darlington and built with the...
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    Wilberforce classes (nos. 12-23) was allocated equally to Robert Stephenson and Company and R and W Hawthorn Baxter state Shildon was No. 38 Baxter states...
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    Haworth, Victoria (2005). Robert Stephenson: Railway Engineer. England: North Eastern Railway Association and The Robert Stephenson Trust. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-873513-60-6...
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    works of Robert Stephenson and Company. In 1885, Bell was hired by the White Star Line and worked on many ships that traded with New Zealand and the United...
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    Egyptian National Railways (category Railway companies of Egypt)
    [citation needed] Muhammad Ali died in 1848, and in 1851 his successor Abbas I contracted Robert Stephenson to build Egypt's first standard gauge railway...
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    GNR Class H4 (category Robert Stephenson and Company locomotives)
    built at Doncaster and Darlington Works, Armstrong Whitworth, Robert Stephenson and Company and the North British Locomotive Company. The last few of 193...
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