The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens
A public railway built primarily to move County Durham coal to navigable water, worked with a mixture of steam locomotives, horses and stationary engines. It proved that a locomotive railway could be built and financed as a common carrier, but it did not yet demonstrate that steam alone was the answer.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- The British railway network · network · United Kingdom · not located
- Coal · natural resource · United Kingdom · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Stephenson's Rocket — collection record
Supports the identity, builder and date of the locomotive that won the Rainhill trials, and by extension the decision of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway to adopt locomotive rather than cable haulage. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted; the collection record was not opened in this session and the surviving object's current display location is not asserted here.
Science Museum Group · locomotive built 1829 · Partly verified
Science Museum Group collection record for the locomotive Rocket, built by Robert Stephenson and Company, 1829
Recorded on The British railway network
Related
Related because they share a subject in the Atlas — never because the text looks similar.
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- The Rainhill trials settle the question of traction · 6–14 October 1829
- The Bridgewater Canal opens from Worsley into Manchester · 1761
- The first commercially successful steam engine begins pumping · 1712