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Egyptian connections to Robert Stephenson were very considerable and a wealth of consequential artefacts are in Cairo Railway Museum. This includes what could well be the single most extravagant piece built by the Robert Stephenson Works. This is works number 1295 of 1862 whose artistic design
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Stephenson's Forth Street Works in South Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, were restored by The Robert Stephenson Trust. The Trust lost its lease to these buildings in February 2009, following purchase of the whole Robert Stephenson and Hawthorn Leslie locomotive works sites for
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Alexandria originally crossed the Nile with an 80 feet (24 m) car float. This was the single largest project of the South Street Works. However, on 15 May 1858 a special train conveying Sa'id's heir presumptive
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Steamer. Councillor Nick Forbes, leader of Newcastle City Council, visited the development on 8 April 2014 to give the city's seal of approval to the project.
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Midland Railway, which was compared with
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British engineer T.H. Galloway to design a railway in 1834. Instructions to make it followed in 1836. Materials were delivered but little real construction followed. No Ottoman
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fell off the float into the river and the prince was drowned. Stephenson therefore replaced the car float with a swing bridge nearly 500 m (1,640 ft) long.
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located in front of the firebox and the crankshaft was coupled to the driving wheels by outside rods. They were unsuccessful on the LCDR, and the five
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survives with all its fantastical marquetry in the Egyptian Railway Museum at Cairo. It is called the Khedive's Train.
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The Boiler Shop Steamer webpage retrieved 30 April 2014;
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The Locomotives of the London Chatham and Dover Railway
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1038:Raafat, Jordan (5 March 1998).
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89:Edward Pease
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1350:Millwrights
1294: /
1252: /
1110:Hughes 1979
1028:, p. 5
873:The office
672:World War I
636:'s for the
612:An example
574:Sa'id Pasha
455:Derby works
1319:Categories
1300: (
1278:54°58′02″N
1258: (
1236:54°32′35″N
1200:29 October
970:References
838:9400 class
730:See also:
684:War Office
644:) and HS (
627:Darlington
520:crankshaft
243:, his son
198:Darlington
196:, and the
182:Locomotion
162:locomotive
144:Darlington
42:Locomotive
1281:1°36′55″W
1239:1°32′11″W
712:B17 class
704:7F 2-8-0s
702:and five
676:ROD 2-8-0
494:Folkstone
453:at their
409:John Bull
320:in 1833.
286:cylinders
282:Diligence
146:, England
129:Successor
67:, England
1050:18 March
893:See also
846:for the
836:and 100
832:for the
827:Class L1
796:en route
788:PC class
758:goodwill
718:for the
706:for the
510:and the
471:Brunel's
396:Patentee
314:Whistler
207:to form
72:Founders
38:Industry
771:During
760:of the
670:During
661:Hebburn
640:to GS (
592:was by
380:Invicta
357:firebox
306:America
302:America
298:Victory
247:, with
237:England
170:England
108: (
103:Defunct
57: (
49:Founded
937:
855:0-6-0T
830:2-6-4T
762:Kitson
654:2-10-0
565:firwan
445:design
414:Planet
390:Planet
372:'s
369:Rocket
361:Rocket
353:boiler
348:Rocket
335:Rocket
280:, and
245:Robert
189:Rocket
160:was a
875:block
841:0-6-0
781:0-6-0
777:0-4-0
696:0-6-0
688:2-6-0
646:2-8-0
642:4-6-0
634:4-4-0
527:class
516:4-2-0
467:4-2-0
463:2-2-2
461:were
443:2-2-2
438:Adler
401:2-2-2
184:No. 1
1202:2022
1052:2007
935:ISBN
779:and
764:and
700:LNER
678:and
525:Echo
377:The
274:Hope
251:and
186:and
118:Fate
110:1937
106:1937
59:1823
52:1823
692:GWR
663:to
239:by
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