Plans by railway pioneer George Stephenson for the world's first passenger line to use locomotives have been found by an archive assistant. The 1822 notebook of the Stockton and Darlington Railway ...

As a historic house that was a home for the nobility, it's perhaps unsurprising that Stapleford Park once hosted royals. But ...

Glenfield Tunnel was the longest steam railway tunnel in the world when it opened in 1832. Designed by the famous railway ...

A sculpture of George Stephenson’s miner’s lamp will be unveiled later this month. Standing 3.6m high, it will be located at the South Gate/West Moor junction, close to Dial Cottage which was ...

group that aims to bridge the gap between experimental and computational mechanics. The award-winning paper illustrates such integrated procedures.” Find out more about the George Stephenson Gold ...

that rail historians are debunking with a reference to the coal tramways of [George Stephenson’s] Northern England. It’s thus sometimes dangerous to take simple soundbite origin stories at ...

Walton College professor Remko van Hoek looks to great supply chain innovators of the past for a brighter future in his new book.

In 1825, in England, George Stephenson operated the first locomotive to pull a passenger train. In 1938, Queen Elizabeth christened the world's largest ocean liner with her own name during a ...

Reaching way back, we have George Stephenson (1781), known as the “father of railways”, who revolutionised rail transport, one of the most important inventions of its, and even all ...

It is said, in fact, to be one of the most haunted hotels in the UK with the tragic ghost of a young maid roaming its rooms ...

DynoTRAIN was a collaborative project – medium-scale focused research project supported by the European Seventh Framework Programme, contract number: 234079 and was led by UNIFE. Find out more about ...