. Jubilee memorial of the railway system, a history of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and a record of its results . railways in Belgium, Mr Stephenson wasin May 1835 created a knight of the Order of Leopold bythe late King of Belgium, and the honour of knighthoodwas on several occasions offered to him by Sir RobertPeel—an honour, however, which he persistently statue was erected in his honour in 1844 in St GeorgesHall, Liverpool; and in 1854 a splendid marble statuewas erected to his memory in the station of the North-Western or London and Birmingham Railway in London,the subsc
. Jubilee memorial of the railway system, a history of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and a record of its results . railways in Belgium, Mr Stephenson wasin May 1835 created a knight of the Order of Leopold bythe late King of Belgium, and the honour of knighthoodwas on several occasions offered to him by Sir RobertPeel—an honour, however, which he persistently statue was erected in his honour in 1844 in St GeorgesHall, Liverpool; and in 1854 a splendid marble statuewas erected to his memory in the station of the North-Western or London and Birmingham Railway in London,the subscription of 3150 workmen and 178 private colossal statue of bronze was subsequently erectedto perpetuate his achievements near the Central Station \\\Newcastle. While employed in the survey of the proposed RoyalNorth of Spain Railway, in 1845, Mr Stephenson wasseized with an illness, terminating in an attack of pleurisy,from which he never quite recovered. On the 12th ofAugust 1848, he expired at Tapton House, .Chesterfield,where he spent the sunset of his life, in the sixty-seventhyear of his
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