Rocket locomotive | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-02

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00:01:20 1 Design
00:01:28 1.1 Basic layout
00:02:01 1.2 Design objectives
00:02:57 1.3 Innovations
00:03:05 1.3.1 Single pair of driving wheels
00:04:16 1.3.2 Multiple boiler fire-tubes
00:06:29 1.3.3 Blastpipe
00:07:14 1.3.4 Cylinders closer to the horizontal
00:07:57 1.3.5 Pistons directly connected to driving wheels
00:08:18 1.3.6 Separate firebox
00:10:05 1.4 Credit for the design
00:11:19 1.5 Evolution of the Stephenson locomotive design
00:11:30 1.5.1 Before iRocket/i
00:12:00 1.5.2 iRocket/i type locomotives
00:12:34 1.5.3 After iRocket/i
00:13:16 2 Operation and subsequent history
00:13:27 2.1 Opening-day accident
00:14:14 2.2 Service
00:14:41 2.3 Modifications
00:15:45 2.3.1 Lord Dundonald's rotary engine
00:16:44 2.3.2 Lord Carlisle's Railway
00:17:14 2.4 Preservation
00:18:13 3 Replicas
00:19:42 4 In fiction
00:20:16 5 See also



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Stephenson's Rocket was an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement. It was built for, and won, the Rainhill Trials held by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1829 to choose the best design to power the railway.
Rocket  was designed by Robert Stephenson in 1829, and built at the Forth Street Works of his company in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Though Rocket was not the first steam locomotive, it was the first to bring together several innovations to produce the most advanced locomotive of its day. It is the most famous example of an evolving design of locomotives by Stephenson that became the template for most steam engines in the following 150 years.
The locomotive was preserved and displayed in the Science Museum in London until 2018. It was loaned to Newcastle Discovery Museum between 22 June and 9 September 2018, to the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester from 25 September 2018 to 8 September 2019, and will move to the National Railway Museum in York later in 2019.