George Stephenson (1781-1848)

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Biographical Material

• George Stephenson (1781-1848): Wylam and Dewley Burn: The Early Years

Stephenson in the Visual Arts

• Stephenson Memorial, Newcastle
• A Giorgio Stephenson

Railway Milestones, Debates and Related Material

• Stephenson’s Locomotive Manufactury at Newcastle-on-Tyne
• The First Locomotives
• Robert Stephenson

Related material

• Fragments of disaster — a review of Terry Deary's Dangerous Days on the Victorian Railways

Sources

"The Death of George Stephenson." The Times. 16 August 1848: 2. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 9 September 2014.

Kirby, M. W. The Origins of Railway Enterprise: The Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1821-1863. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Smiles, Samuel. The Story of the Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer. Abridged ed. with Portraits and Illustrative Woodcuts. London: John Murray, 1859. Internet Archive. Uploaded by the University of Toronto. Web. 9 September 2014.

_____. "Stephenson, George (1781–1848), colliery and railway engineer." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Web. 9 September 2014.

“Stephenson’s Locomotive Manufactury at Newcastle-on-Tyne.” Illustrated London News (15 October 1864): 392-94. (complete text in the Victorian Web).

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