As the city responsible for the importation of America's first steam locomotive, the Stourbridge Lion in 1829, Carbondale was once a main terminus of the Delaware and Hudson Railway.

Honesdale is home to the first commercial steam locomotive run on rails in the United States, the Stourbridge Lion.

On August 8, 1829, the Stourbridge Lion started in Honesdale, ran three miles to Seelyville, and returned ; Honesdale, therefore, is known as the birthplace of the American Railroad.

The Stourbridge Lion, owned by the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company ( D & H ) was regrettably considered too heavy for further use.

The Wayne County Historical Society Museum contains a full-scale replica of the Stourbridge Lion ; the Society also displays many historical photographs, artifacts and other exhibits.

Parts of the original Stourbridge Lion are on display at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.

* August 8, 1829: The Stourbridge Lion, first steam locomotive in the US, is tested along tracks built by the Delaware and Hudson company.

The famous Stourbridge Lion locomotive, was built in Stourbridge at the foundry of Foster, Rastrick and Co. in 1828.

* Information about the Stourbridge Lion

* Stourbridge Lion, an early US steam locomotive built in Britain

Many of the earliest locomotives for American railroads were imported from England, including the Stourbridge Lion and the John Bull, but a domestic locomotive manufacturing industry was quickly established, with locomotives like the DeWitt Clinton being built in the 1830s.

The Stourbridge Lion was a railroad steam locomotive.

The Pride of Newcastle even arrived in America nearly two months before the Stourbridge Lion, but it was the latter that was used for the first railroad trials.

Jervis had specified that the locomotives should weigh no more than 4 tons ; the Stourbridge Lion weighed nearly double that, 7. 5 tons.

The Stourbridge Lion ( Lithograph )

This engine, the Agenoria, is believed to be a duplicate of the Stourbridge Lion.

By 1834, documents show that the railroad attempted to sell the Stourbridge Lion and its early sisters to the Pennsylvania Canal Commission, but the deal was not finalized.

By 1845, all that was left of the Stourbridge Lion was its boiler.

A few other parts that are believed to have been from the Stourbridge Lion are also preserved, but their authenticity is questioned.

The D & H built their own replica of the Stourbridge Lion in 1932 from plans that were made based on the parts remaining in existence.

The Wayne County Historical Society Museum contains a full-scale replica of the Stourbridge Lion, and is home to many interesting photographs and artifacts.

This museum is in a small brick building on Main Street, Honedale PA, which was once the D & H Canal's company office, and is where the Stourbridge Lion began its inaugural run.

* Stourbridge Railroad ( the current line on the track used by the Stourbridge Lion )

Page's first choice for the lead singer was Terry Reid, but Reid declined the offer and suggested Robert Plant, a Stourbridge singer for the Band of Joy and Hobbstweedle.

Under the Local Government Act 1972, a proposal for Kidderminster to be part of the West Midlands metropolitan county was disbanded following a trimming of the county boundary back to Stourbridge.

In 1893, Tiffany built a new factory called the Stourbridge Glass Company, later called Tiffany Glass Furnaces, which was located in Corona, Queens, New York.

The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal was conceived as part of a network of canals which would allow coal from the Dudley Canal and the Stourbridge Canal to reach Oxford and London, without having to use the Birmingham canals, the management of which was seen as high-handed.

Edwards was also honoured with street names in his home town of Dudley ; there is a small close off Stourbridge Road named Duncan Edwards Close ,.

The service between Birmingham and Stourbridge was increased to every 10 minutes, and this in turn increased the Kidderminster service.

There was little or no improvement on services towards Worcester and the Birmingham New Street to Worcester via Stourbridge was discontinued meaning passenger started changing at Smethwick Galton Bridge to allow them to get to New Street.

In the 1750s, Broad Street was an unnamed country path that ran across Easy Hill from Bewdley Street ( now Victoria Square ) and Swinford Street ( now the top end of New Street ) to Five Ways and on to Stourbridge and Bewdley.

A shuttle service of four trains per day to Langley Green only was maintained along with a stopping service to Wolverhampton, Stourbridge services were diverted into New Street, and the route to Dudley was closed.

His father, Thomas Rogers, a banker, was the son of a Stourbridge glass manufacturer, who was also a merchant in Cheapside.

It opened in 1850, and in its heyday was a hub of services east to Birmingham ( via a junction at Great Bridge ), Walsall and Lichfield ; north to Wolverhampton, Tipton and Coseley ; and south-west to Stourbridge, as well as a line that served the small communities on the way to Old Hill and Halesowen.

In March 2011, the business plan for the reopening of the South Staffordshire Line between Walsall and Stourbridge for the Midland Metro was submitted to Network Rail.

Trams would share the line with freight trains, and a decision from Network Rail on the scheme between Stourbridge and Walsall was due in the summer.

Newton had stated that when he had purchased a book on astrology at Stourbridge fair, near Cambridge, he was unable, on account of his ignorance of trigonometry, to understand a figure of the heavens which was drawn in the book.

Hereford and Worcester () was an English county created on 1 April 1974, by the Local Government Act 1972 from the area of the former administrative county of Herefordshire, most of Worcestershire ( except Halesowen and Stourbridge, which became part of the West Midlands ) and the county borough of Worcester.

Trade in the town centre declined between 1985 and 1990 as the Merry Hill Shopping Centre some five miles away at Brierley Hill was developed, although not as severely as it declined in Stourbridge and in particular Dudley.

* Robert Plant, of Led Zeppelin, was born in West Bromwich but brought up in Halesowen and attended both Halesowen Grammar School and King Edward VI Grammar School, Stourbridge ( now Earls High and King Edward VI College respectively ).

The magnificent Stambermill Viaduct carries the what was the former Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway line over the Stour between Stourbridge and Lye.