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	Stephenson Railway Museum : Attractions of Newcastle \| Europe Travel
		The Stephenson Railway Museum is part of the Tyne and Wear Museums service group of museums, and is located in North Shields.
		The museum’s location is adjacent to the Blythe & Tyne footpath, approximately 1.5 miles north of Percy Main metro station and a similar distance south of Shiremoor metro station.
		Museum of Antiquities : Attractions of Newcastle The Museum of Antiquities is an archaeological museum at the University of Newcastle upon...
	europe-chronicle.com /general-info/2650/stephenson-railway-museum-attractions-of-newcastle (584 words)

	George Stephenson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Stephenson was born in Wylam, Northumberland, 9.3 miles (15 km) west of Newcastle upon Tyne.
		Stephenson's entry was Rocket, and its impressive performance in winning the contest made it arguably the most famous machine in the world.
		As a tribute to his life and works, a bronze statue of Stephenson was unveiled at Chesterfield railway station (which is overlooked by Tapton House, where Stephenson spent the last ten years of his life) on 28 October 2005, marking the completion of improvements to the station.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Stephenson (1183 words)

	North East England - Industrial Heritage
		The greatest railway pioneers William Hedley, Timothy Hackworth, Edward Pease and George and Robert Stephenson, were all from the North East and all actively involved with the railway developments of the region's coal mining industry.
		Stephenson's locomotives and railway at Hetton Colliery served as models for the ‘Stockton and Darlington', the world's first public railway, which is yet another feature of County Durham's rich railway heritage.
		It is interesting to note that the gauge Stephenson chose for his railways (4'8 1/2'') is now the standard gauge for railways throughout the world.
	www.northeastengland.co.uk /page/history/industrial.cfm (517 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Museums around the UK
		Highland Museum of Childhood, Strathpeffer, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland.
		Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
		[Responsible for: Hunterian Museum; Odontological Museum, Wellcome Museum of Anatomy; Wellcome Museum of Pathology].
	icom.museum /vlmp/uk.html (8217 words)

	Railway Museum Quarterly - Last Issue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The museum is currently not eligible for full ARM membership because it has no full-size railway equipment in its collections—although it does display and interpret semaphores and other supporting artifacts.
		The Connecticut Trolley Museum was formed in 1940 as a spinoff of the Connecticut Valley Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society.
		Museums, tourist railways and historic operations are not exempt from the rules of the American working environment.
	www.railwaymuseum.org /RMQ_summer_2003.htm (8779 words)

	Museums & Galleries Northumberland Northumbria England UK GB (page 103) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Museum vividly recreates life in the North in the early part of this century with genuine buildings often moved brick by brick to the site; and where visitors are welcomed by authentically costumed staff.
		The superb museum has rare Roman writing tablets including an invitation to a party which was voted by the public as the number one treasure from Britain's past in the British Museum.
		Wylam Railway Museum was opened in 1981, the bicentenary of the birth of “The Father of Railways” George Stephenson who was born in Wylam, to commemorate Wylam’s unique contribution to railway history.
	www.northumberland.gov.uk /VG/hismuseums.html (3567 words)

	The Egyptian Rail Museum (Trains and other Transport)
		It was originally built to celebrate the international railway conference which was held in that same year in Cairo.
		In 1825, George Stephenson was able to use his wagon “locomotion” to transport passengers from Seketon to Lingenton in England.
		The first railway route in Egypt was built in 1854, between Alexandria and Kafer Eassa, and it reached Cairo in 1856.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/trainmuseum.htm (1218 words)

	Stephenson Railway Museum on AboutBritain.com
		See George Stephenson's Billy, a forerunner of the world-famous Rocket, and many other engines from the great age of steam including Jackie Milburn, named after the Newcastle United legend.
		The museum is open on a seasonal basis until 25th September and also on 25th and 27th October 2005 Tuesdays to Thursdays 11.00am - 3.00pm Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays 11.00am - 4.00pm.
		The Swallow Imperial Hotel is situated in the exclusive district of Jesmond in the heart of the lively city of Newcastle.
	www.aboutbritain.com /StephensonRailwayMuseum.htm (453 words)

	The Rainhill Trials - Stephenson's Rocket
		George Stephenson, the Engineer of the line was in favour of locomotive power but some members of the LandM board strongly held the opposing view.
		The clear winner was Stephenson's "Rocket" which hauled a specified load 40 times over a distance of one and three-quarter miles and, in fact, reached a speed of 30 miles per hour.
		The Rainhill Railway Museum, housed in an old railway coach adjacent to the Library in View Road, Rainhill, has displays and documents describing the Trials and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
	www.rainhill-civic-society.org.uk /html/rainhillHistory.html (617 words)

	Daniel McIntyre's UK Railway & Transport Museum Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This museum is located near Glenfinnan Viaduct on the Fort William to Mallaig railway line.
		This museum is located at Middle Engine Lane, on part of the North Tyneside Steam Railway, near North Shields, Tyne and Wear.
		This is a museum of road, steam and industrial heritage at Milford, Lifton, in Devon.
	www.strps.org.uk /raillinks/uk-museums.htm (670 words)

	SLS_Associated_locomotives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		On 20th September 1997 members of the Stephenson Locomotive Society met at the National Railway Museum, York, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of preservation by the Society of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway Stroudley"B" Class 0-4-0 No214 Gladstone.
		In autumn 2005 Porterbrook Leasing, owners of the locomotive since privatisation, passed the pioneer class 87 to the custody of the National Railway Museum to be included within the National Collection of preserved locomotives.
		Stephenson had been "stood down" with a defective transformer prior to the last Class 87 runs on Virgin West coast scheduled services.
	www.stephensonloco.fsbusiness.co.uk /loco_assoc.htm (618 words)

	Newcastle United \| News \| Latest News \| Help Get Wor Jackie Back On Track!
		Stephenson Railway Museum in North Tyneside recently launched a public appeal to help restore one of its most loved steam locomotives: Ashington No.5, also known as Jackie Milburn in honour of the great Newcastle footballer who grew up in Ashington and who is known affectionately to thousands of North Easterners as 'Wor Jackie'.
		In 1991, the locomotive was acquired by the Stephenson Railway Museum in North Tyneside.
		Since its arrival at the Stephenson Railway Museum the locomotive has carried the additional name Jackie Milburn to honour and celebrate its association with the birthplace of the Newcastle United footballing legend.
	www.nufc.premiumtv.co.uk /page/NewsDetail/0,,10278~883319,00.html (518 words)

	National Railway Museum - Port Adelaide
		In 1861 Beyer Peacock and Co., Manchester, England, built for the West Midland railway a 2-4-0 tank locomotive that was to be the forerunner of many of this type built, with few modifications, over the next twenty-five years.
		When the South Australian Railways took over the Glenelg Railway Company's two lines in 1899 the Ps displaced the Company's small 4-4-0 and 0-4-4 tanks and, along with the K-class 0-6-4Ts, hauled all trains until these lines were closed in 1929.
		It was the first locomotive to enter the Mile End Railway Museum on 24th August 1964, and was placed at the museum on 29th October 1988.
	www.natrailmuseum.org.au /exhibits/nrm_p117.html (364 words)

	Railway Heritage Register Carriage Survey Project
		East Anglian Railway Museum, the Midland Railway Trust Limited, the Scottish Railway Preservation Society, the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway and the Vintage Carriages Trust, in partnership with the
		Heritage Railway Association, The National Railway Museum and The Transport Trust.
		Railway Carriages represent an important aspect of the history of our country and this project will allow them to take their rightful place within our industrial and transport heritage.
	www.vintagecarriagestrust.org /se/search.asp (362 words)

	Rail Art Links: UK Railway Museums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The biggest and best railway museum in the world - locomotives / carriages / wagons, plus working signalling exhibits, demonstration lines and more and more.
		Kidderminster Railway Museum - part of a visit to the Severn Valley Railway - host to many RAILART exhibitions.
		The Society was founded in 1973 to promote interest in the South Eastern and Chatham Railway and its two constituent companies: the London Chatham and Dover Railway and the South Eastern Railway.
	www.railart.co.uk /links_museums.html (314 words)

	Driving Experiences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This is in association with the North Tyneside Stephenson Museum which is concentrating on Stephenson the Locomotive designer while Bowes Railway is focusing on Stephenson the Railway architect and system designer.
		In February 2006 the Railway's steam locomotive ‘WST' was transported to Beamish for the Beamish Easter Weekend.
		During the past twelve months the Railway to has continued to give hands-on railway experience to staff from larger museums and to this end hosted a group from Beamish during the autumn of 2005.
	www.bowesrailway.co.uk /News/Outreach_06.htm (564 words)

	Wylam Northumberland Northumbria England UK GB (page 76) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Born in Wylam, it is deabatable as to whether or not he should be credited as the principal inventor of the railway locomotive, he is often known as "The Father of the Railways".
		Railway transportation was born on 27 September 1825 when Stephenson's "Locomotion" ran from Darlington to Stockton, carrying 450 persons at 15 miles per hour.
		Stephenson's later "Rocket" won a famous competition to find the fastest locomotive by traveling at an average speed of 36 miles per hour from Liverpool to Manchester in 1829.
	www.northumberland.gov.uk /vg/wylam.htm (743 words)

	UK Heritage Railways - Heritage Railway Association
		As there are several operating railways and other venues of railway interest within the area of the North East England and Yorkshire we are taking this opportunity of listing brief details of these in the hope that these will be of interest and use to coach and tour operators.
		The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway is operated entirely by volunteers, it has a fine collection of preserved locomotives and the railway recreates a typical branch line scene from the 1950's and early 1960's.
		The Tanfield Railway is one of the oldest railways in the World as the route of the line dates back to 1725 with structures and buildings dating from the 1700's and the 1800's.
	ukhrail.uel.ac.uk /rail200b.html (656 words)

	Tyne & Wear Museums, Stephenson
		Re-live the glorious days of the steam railway at Stephenson Railway Museum in North Shields.
		The Museum is home to George Stephenson's 'Billy', a forerunner of the world- famous Rocket.
		Stephenson Railway Museum is managed by Tyne and Wear Museums on behalf of North Tyneside Council.
	www.twmuseums.org.uk /stephenson (153 words)

	National Railway Museum - Port Adelaide
		In 1969 it was donated, minus its tender, to the Mile End Railway Museum.
		At first it was feared that the tender had been scrapped but it was later discovered that the underframes were still in use as a flat car.
		This was obtained by the Museum who built a new tender on it.
	www.natrailmuseum.org.au /exhibits/nrm_bhp4.html (386 words)

	National Railway Museum
		The National Railway Museum is home to the largest collection of locomotives, rolling stock and railway memorabilia in the world.
		In addition to the locomotives and rolling stock are many varied collections associated with the railways, such as timepieces, models, tools of the trade, hotel and catering wares, tickets, signaling, uniforms, railway road vehicles and many more.
		A recent addition to the museums collection is the Shinkansen, the Series 0 "Bullet Train" now on display near the entrance to the Great hall, thanks to the generosity of Japanese railways.
	www.dave-ford.co.uk /National_Railway_Museum.htm (435 words)

	Railway Association - North Tyneside Steam - Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Development began with horse or rope-haulage of coal-traffic in chaldron wagons; ropes were replaced progressively by steam locomotive power and when the Tyne and Wear Passsenger Transport Executive took over the site in the 1970's, steam gave way to electric traction on the sections which they incorporated into their test track.
		The purpose-built railway workshop accommodation has allowed restoration work on the exhibits to proceed and the facility exists to demonstrate some in working order during public open days.
		There is no admission charge for visiting the museum but a ride on the railway is chargeable.
	www.ntsra.org.uk /museum.html (382 words)

	Museums & Art Galleries to visit in the UK - Britain's Finest Museums & Galleries
		Britain's Finest Museums & Galleries features over 250 major museums and art galleries of national and local importance with appeal to all ages.
		The broad range of museums, all displaying outstanding collections, includes natural history museums, Egyptian museums, social history museums, science museums, military museums, toy museums and many more subjects.
		There is good geographical coverage across the UK, so whether you are searching for museums in Manchester, museums in Edinburgh or art galleries in London you will find a place to visit.
	www.britainsfinest.co.uk /museums/museums.cfm/searchazref/80001259STEA (298 words)

	SLS - Gladstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		On 20th September 1997 members of the Stephenson Locomotive Society met at the National Railway Museum, York, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of preservation by the Society of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway Stoudley "B" Class 0-4-0 No214 Gladstone.
		To mark the 50th anniversary of its preservation, Gladstone was restored by the Museum staff and on 28 May 1977, carrying the LBandSCR Royal Train headboard and decorations, it was on display to SLS members in the Museum yard together with the Pullman Car Topaz.
		In 1982 it went to Sheffield Park where the Bluebell Railway celebrated the centenary of the Lewes and East Grinstead Railway, and in 1991 it was at Brighton for the 150th anniversary celebrations.
	www.stephensonloco.fsbusiness.co.uk /SLSgladstone.htm (1011 words)

	Tourist and Enthusiast Railways - North East (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Stephenson Railway Museum, North Shields to Percy Main: about 1¼ miles (2 km).
		Miniature Railway Valley Gardens: line 680 yards (620 m) in length, 15 inch (381 mm) gauge.
		Cliff Lift Lower Promenade (opposite the Pier) to Marine Parade: the oldest surviving water-balance cliff lift in the UK, with a rise of 120 feet (37 m).
	www.sinfin.net /railways/tourist/touristne.html (212 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		Dieter Hopkin of the Science Museum tracks its development--from conception and design through to its early redundancy--and shows how a pioneering design can be transformed from an idea for a specific competition to one with wide-reaching, major commercial value.
		Its design and construction produced a momentous leap forward in locomotive and railway practice as it embodied the fundamental principles which were followed through the 150-year history of the reciprocating steam locomotive.
		What remains are mainly those parts believed to date from 1829-36, as surveyed in detail at the National Railway Museum in 1999, and represent the bare bones of the locomotive in its rebuilt form.
	www.fathom.com /feature/122162 (897 words)

	Victorian Railways
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		Railway Mania — The Financing of Early Railways, Speculation, and Stock Swindling
		Railways in Victorian Fiction — The Effect upon the City
	www.victorianweb.org /technology/rrov.html (138 words)

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		The Museum is also the northern terminus for the North Tyneside Steam Railway and rides on steam trains can be taken during the summer months.
		The Canadian National Railway had converted the locomotive to an oil burner sometime prior to selling it to the Quebec, North Shore and Labrador Railway in 1952, which used it in the construction of the mining railway connecting the port of Sept-Iles, Quebec with the iron mines at Labrador City and Schefferville, Quebec.
		The Canadian Railway Museum leased 1112 to the Smiths Falls Railway Museum Association, which is the Ridaeu Valley Division of the CRHA, and on June 6, 1992 the steam locomotive was moved to the museum site.
	geocaching.com.au /cache/gc49c7 (6671 words)

	George Stephenson (1781-1848), Inventor of the railway-engine
		Stephenson, the inventor and founder of railways, was a practical engineer without formal education who became interested in developing more efficient rails and locomotives.
		After his pioneering work on the Stockton and Darlington Railway (1825), he won the contract for the Manchester and Liverpool Line in 1826.
		The building of these two lines prompted immense business speculation and an expansion of the railway system which transformed the British countryside and economy.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?linkID=mp04286 (182 words)

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