The Forth Street works continued to build locomotives until the mid-twentieth century, and the original factory building still exists, at Forth Street in Newcastle, as the Robert Stephenson Centre.

The Birmingham City Centre Extension ( BCCE ) will extend Line 1 into the streets of central Birmingham, terminating at Stephenson Street, adjacent to New Street railway station.

The Dr. Bette Stephenson Centre for Learning was also named after her.

The area is notable for Walker Park, the Walker Riverside Park, and the Lady Stephenson Library ( now known unimaginatively as ' Walker Library ') as well as the Lightfoot Sports Centre, which is set to undergo a £ 2. 5m refurbishment.

Mike Stephenson was responsible for the setting-up of the Rugby League Heritage Centre at the George Hotel, Huddersfield.

Stephenson was directly responsible for the tunnel under Primrose Hill, which required excavation by shafts.

From Snow Hill the tramway will run along Colmore Circus, Upper Bull Street, Corporation Street and Stephenson Place, with three stops.

* Stephenson, William Samuel, Roald Dahl, Tom Hill and Gilbert Highet ( introduced by Nigel West ), British Security Coordination: The Secret History of British Intelligence in the Americas, 1940-1945, Fromm International ( June 1999 )-ISBN 0-88064-236-X ( first published in the UK in 1998 ) Reviewed by Charles C. Kolb ( National Endowment for the Humanities ), December, 1999.

Based on the sexual relationship between Jamie's character and his step-mum, Rupert Hill claimed that he wasn't quite sure about Jamie's true feeling for Frankie, though he could clarify why Jamie had such feelings, he was concerned about how the storyline had an uncomfortable atmosphere, he admitted that he and Debra Stephenson, who played Frankie, were wary about filming these scenes, thinking it was sensational and irregular, though the scripts they received were more than interesting.

Also named after him and his son is George Stephenson High School in Killingworth, Stephenson Memorial Primary School in Howdon, the Stephenson Railway Museum in North Shields and the Stephenson Locomotive Society.

Other plays they premiered or produced there were W. S. Gilbert's Allow Me To Explain ( 1867 ) and his romantic comedy tribute to Robertson, Sweethearts ( 1874 ), as well as Tame Cats ( 1868 ), Lytton's Money ( 1872 ), The School for Scandal ( 1874 ), Boucicault's London Assurance ( 1877 ), and Diplomacy ( 1878 ), an adaptation of Sardou's Dora by Clement Scott and B. C. Stephenson.

Killingworth is also home to four primary schools ( Westmoor, Bailey Green, Moor Edge and Amberley ) and a high school, George Stephenson High School.

In many important respects, this town resembles Ames, Iowa, where Stephenson attended Ames High School.

Telfair went to high school at Lincoln High School in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York City, and was the school's all-time leading scorer until Lance Stephenson broke his record in 2009.

In 1958, under the captaincy of the first professional cricketer to captain the team, Maurice Tremlett, the side again finished third, and this was repeated in 1963 and 1966 under different captains, Harold Stephenson and Colin Atkinson, who later became headmaster at Millfield School.

* 2007: Alex Stephenson ( Eagan High School, Minnesota )

* 2007: Alex Stephenson ( Eagan High School, Minnesota )

“ By 1933 the school was debt-ridden … and only a half dozen pupils remained ....” “ Sometimes the children ’ s welfare seemed subordinated to indoctrination of pet political and social ideas favored by directors or staff members …” ( See: William L. Stephenson, “ A Brief Note on Manumit School ,” 1943 ).

For the Stockton and Darlington Railway, however, Stephenson would use only wrought iron rails, notwithstanding the financial loss he would suffer from not using his own, patented design ( see below ).

George Stephenson, with his work on the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, paved the way for the railway engineers who were to follow, such as his son Robert, his assistant Joseph Locke who went on to carry out much work on his own account and Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

* 1825: George Stephenson opens the Stockton and Darlington Railway the first steam train railway for passenger traffic in the world.

As used by George Stephenson on the Stockton & Darlington and Canterbury & Whitstable lines they weighed.

In 1821, a wagonway was proposed that would connect the mines at West Durham, Darlington and the River Tees at Stockton, George Stephenson successfully argued that horse drawn wagonways were obsolete and a steam powered railway could carry 50 times as much coal.

Hackworth only stayed until the end of that year, following which, he returned to Walbottle occupying his time with contract work until, upon the recommendation of George Stephenson, he was appointed on 13 May 1825 to the position of locomotive superintendent of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, a post he was to occupy until May 1840

Hackworth is believed to have been influential in the development of the first Stephenson locomotive intended for the Stockton and Darlington Railway during his time at the Forth Street factory.

Robert Stephenson constructed a number of well-known bridges to carry the new railway lines, following the experience of his father on the Stockton and Darlington line.

That design convinced the backers of the proposed Stockton and Darlington Railway to appoint Stephenson as Engineer for the line in 1821.

In 1823, when Joseph was 17, Stephenson was involved with planning the Stockton and Darlington Railway.

D305 – D324 ) which were built at Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns factory in Darlington.

In 1828 William Stenson observed the success of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and, with John Ellis, and his son Robert, travelled to see George Stephenson where he was building the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

* Robert Stephenson 1825 Stockton and Darlington

* September 27-Official opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in the north of England, engineered by George Stephenson.

He worked for Sharp Stewart and Company, Dübs and Company and the Glasgow and South Western Railway ( GSWR ), before becoming Assistant Chief Draughtsmant of Robert Stephenson Ltd of Darlington.

English Electric split the construction between their Vulcan Foundry at Newton-le-Willows, and Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns of Darlington.

In 1925 an additional 5 were ordered from Robert Stephenson and Company in Darlington and built with the larger G9BS boilers, becoming numbers 86 – 90.

* In the Neal Stephenson novel The Diamond Age, ubiquitous molecular nanotechology is described to make use of " rod logic " similar to that imagined by Babbage's design for the Analytical Engine.

His rail gauge of, sometimes called " Stephenson gauge ", is the world's standard gauge.

There is a theory that it was Stephenson who indirectly gave the name of Geordies to the people of the North East of England.

Altogether, Stephenson is said to have produced 16 locomotives at Killingworth, although it has never proved possible to produce a convincing list of all 16.

The museum is located within the Stephenson Memorial Hall ( which also incorporates the Pomegranate Theatre, formerly the Chesterfield Civic Theatre ) and adjacent to Stephensons Place, located roughly mid distance between Stephenson's final home at Tapton House and his resting place in Trinity Church.

George Stephenson College, founded in 2001 on the University of Durham's Queen's Campus in Stockton-on-Tees, is named after him, with the student union bar being named The Rocket.

As a tribute to his life and works, a bronze statue of Stephenson was unveiled at Chesterfield railway station ( which is overlooked by Tapton House, where Stephenson spent the last ten years of his life ) on 28 October 2005, marking the completion of improvements to the station.

BD + 36 3317, a white star in the young open cluster Stephenson 1, was discovered as a binary eclipsing system by Violat-Bordonau in 2008 ; its period is 4. 30216 days ; its other name is VSX J185422. 2 + 365107.

Lance Stephenson, a 6 – 5, " 395 "- pound junior guard from Lincoln who is the No. 4 overall player in the class of 2009 recently contacted Self about his interest in Kansas.

Neal Town Stephenson ( born October 31, 1959 ) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction.

Born on October 31, 1959 in Fort Meade, Maryland, Stephenson came from a family of engineers and hard scientists ; his father is a professor of electrical engineering whose father was a physics professor.

REAMDE, a play on the common filename README, is a novel by Stephenson released on September 20, 2011.

In the Beginning ... Was the Command Line is an essay by Neal Stephenson which was originally published online in 1999 and later made available in book form ( November 1999, ISBN 0-380-81593-1 ).

Because of this attitude, Stephenson argues that Microsoft is not really a monopoly, as evidenced by the free availability of other choice OS's, but rather has simply accrued enough mindshare among the people to have them coming back.

Stephenson is a medieval patronymic surname meaning " son of Stephen ".

The standard gauge ( also named the Stephenson gauge after George Stephenson, ' or normal gauge ) is a widely-used track gauge.