Papers put historians on the right track over rail rivalry From: Yorkshire Post | Date: August 3, 2005 | Copyright 2005 Yorkshire Post. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Julie Hemmings

THE designer of the Rocket rail engine, George Stephenson, is regarded as the father of the railways - but he may just have been a better publicity man than his fellow Victorian innovators.

Papers donated to the National Railway Museum (NRM) in York are likely re-ignite the debate over who created the breakthrough technology that made reliable steam locomotives possible.

A letter dated July 25, 1828, to fellow engineer Timothy Hackworth confirms that Steph...

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