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Brian Redhead reports from the 'Rocket 150' event held at Rainhill, Lancashire to mark the 150th anniversary of the world's first inter-city railway and the Stephensons' legendary Rocket locomotive.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT INCLUDED Ukraine said as many as 50 people, including five children, were killed and many more were wounded and lost limbs in a rocket strike at a railway station packed with ...

Boffins at Bradford University are trying to find out whether railway pioneer Robert Stephenson died from a drugs habit. They have joined forces with the National Railway Museum in a quest to unravel ...

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has accused of Russia of launching a missile strike that hit the Chaplyne railway station in the southern Dnipropetrovsk region, killing at least 22 people and ...

1. That was also the occasion of the first railway passenger fatality, when William Huskisson fell under the wheels of Stephenson’s Rocket. 2. He wasn’t the first man killed by a train. That was on ...