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Robert Stephenson’s Planet class locomotive was the first true design of mainline express passenger locomotive. Delivered less than a year after Rocket it was

The Liverpool & Manchester Railway was Britain’s first mainline, intercity railway; opened in 1830 it was at the cutting edge of railway technology. Engineere

Anthony Dawson looks at some of the iconic, trailblazing locomotives that helped shape British railway history.

A fascinating insight into what it was like to work on the world's first railways.