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In 1825 he built the Locomotion for the Stockton and Darlington Railway, north east England, which became the first public steam railway.
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1825 and Locomotion
In September 1825 the works at Forth Street, Newcastle completed the first locomotive for the new railway: originally named Active, it was soon renamed Locomotion.
It was based on experience gained from earlier designs by George and Robert Stephenson, including the Killingworth locomotive Blücher ( 1814 ); Locomotion No 1 ( 1825 ); and the Lancashire Witch ( 1828 ).
That locomotive, then named Active, now known as Locomotion No 1, was delivered to the railway just before the opening ceremony on 27 September 1825.
George used Locomotion in 1825 for the opening of the Stockton and Darlington line, which Robert had helped to survey.
The 25-mile ( 40 km ) long route opened on 27 September 1825 and, with the aid of Stephenson's Locomotion No 1, was the first locomotive-hauled public railway in the world.
Hauled by Locomotion No 1, the great engineer himself manned the engine on its first journey in 1825.
The Locomotion Museum is sited near Timothy Hackworth's Soho Works on the Stockton and Darlington Railway ( opened on 27 September 1825 with a train hauled by Locomotion No 1 which took 2 hours to complete the 12 mile journey from Shildon to Darlington ).
Shortly after the Stockton and Darlington Railway in England opened ( 1825 ) he visited it and observed George Stephenson's Locomotion in operation.
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