Engraving depicting the Rainhill trials in which five locomotives competed for the contract for the Liverpool-Manchester Railway: the winner was Robert Stephenson's locomotive 'Rocket'. Robert Stephenson (1803-1859) an early railway and civil engineer. Dated 19th century

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