A woman whose parents and grandparents were murdered in a massacre at a country house dinner party in the 1980s has told of her relief that one of the killers has lost a Parole Board bid to be ...

Plans by railway pioneer George Stephenson for the world's first passenger line to use locomotives have been found by an archive assistant. The 1822 notebook of the Stockton and Darlington Railway ...

A sculpture of George Stephenson’s miner’s lamp will be unveiled later this month. Standing 3.6m high, it will be located at the South Gate/West Moor junction, close to Dial Cottage which was ...

group that aims to bridge the gap between experimental and computational mechanics. The award-winning paper illustrates such integrated procedures.” Find out more about the George Stephenson Gold ...

The Rocket was designed and built by George Stephenson with the help of his son, Robert, and Henry Booth, for the 1829 Rainhill Trials. The Trials were held by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway ...

Designed by the famous railway engineer George Stephenson, the tunnel is just over a mile long, and formed part of the Leicester and Swannington railway network. The railway brought coal from ...

Northerners and where the North starts explained - and it's nothing to do with geography ...

Robert Stephenson, called the greatest engineer of the nineteenth century, was buried beside Thomas Telford in the centre part of the nave of Westminster Abbey. He was born on 16th October 1803 near ...

“Winning an award is really motivating and encourages you to push the boundaries further with more intensive and innovative research efforts.” Find out more about the George Stephenson Gold Medal ...