Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill trials to determine the practicality of steam locomotives to operate the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in England

When

14 Oct 1829

Kind

Event

Coordinates

53.42° N, 2.76° W

Description

Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill trials to determine the practicality of steam locomotives to operate the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in England.

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Rainhill trials.

• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Das Rennen von Rainhill beginnt, bei dem eine geeignete Lokomotive für die geplante Eisenbahnstrecke zwischen Liverpool und Manchester gefunden werden soll”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “イギリスでレインヒル・トライアル（蒸気機関車の公開性能試験）が終了し、スチーブンソン父子（ジョージおよびロバート）の設計した「ロケット号」が優勝。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page