The locomotive is quite famous in the USA, although few people in Stourbridge have heard of it.

On 22 June 1929 a famous aviation barnstormer named Alan Cobham went to Perton trying persuade local dignitaries that they should all have their own local airfields by making speeches and taking the mayors and officials of Walsall, Wednesubry, Wolverhampton, and Stourbridge for flights in his DH-61 Flying Moth ( a ten seater enclosed cabin aeroplane ).

Stone bas-reliefs, including the famous Royal Lion Hunt relief's ( Room 10 ), that were found in the palaces of the Assyrian kings at Nimrud and Nineveh.

Layard's work was continued by his assistant, Hormuzd Rassam and in 1852 – 1854 he went on to discover the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh with many magnificent reliefs, including the famous Royal Lion Hunt scenes.

Lewis said that the famous Narnia story, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, all came to him from a single picture he had in his head of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels through a snowy wood.

Red Lion was once famous for the many brands of cigars made in the town.

Gerald Flood, stage, TV and film actor, lived in Farnham for most of his life ; Peter Lupino, a well-known West End actor of the 1930s and 40s, and member of the famous theatrical family, also lived for many years in Farnham, in Red Lion Lane and was a well-known local character in his retirement.

* For Pictures of the famous original " Lion Capital of Ashoka " preserved at the Sarnath Museum which has been adopted as the " National Emblem of India " and the Ashoka Chakra ( Wheel ) from which has been placed in the center of the " National Flag of India "-See " lioncapital " from Columbia University Website, New York, USA

Here he devoted himself to crafting medals, the most famous of which are " Hercules and the Nemean Lion ", in gold repoussé work, and " Atlas supporting the Sphere ", in chased gold, the latter eventually falling into the possession of Francis I of France.

It is based on the club colours, blue and white, a crown representing royal sovereignty for the County of Berkshire and an image of Reading's most famous landmark, the Maiwand Lion.

The famous Lion of Waterloo is actually located on the territory of Braine-l ' Alleud.

* The Butte du Lion, erected on the famous Battle of Waterloo, attracts thousands of visitors every year.

Bertel Thorvaldsen's famous carving of a dying lion ( the Lion Monument, or Löwendenkmal ) is found in a small park just off the Lowenplatz.

The next coin of this value did not appear until early in the reign of Queen Victoria, when one of the most famous and attractive of all British coins was produced, colloquially known as the Una and the Lion coin.

Marlene Dietrich and Margo Lion were among the most famous performers of the period, and became associated with both humorous satire and liberal ideas.

This paradoxical violation of the conventional order of time and space is exemplified by Fa-tsang's famous " Essay on the Golden Lion ":

Possibly the most famous yodeling tune known the world-over is the song " The Lion Sleeps Tonight ", also known as " Wimoweh ".

With other selected children she had recording sessions at the famous Abbey Road studios for the Disney and Walden Media film version of CS Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Goldwyn Pictures proved successful but it is their " Leo the Lion " trademark for which the organization is most famous.

The phrase was made famous by the movie The Lion King.

After their marriage, Richard and Jenny had relocated to Scotland, where their children were born, including Edgar's paternal half-brother, George Marriott Edgar ( 1880 – 1951 ), who was renowned under his stage name of Marriott Edgar as a poet, comedian, and scriptwriter for Stanley Holloway, for whom he wrote the famous Holloway Monologues, including The Lion and Albert.

In 1927, famous because of The Ringer, Edgar secured an extraordinary deal-unprecedented for its time-with a cinematic company, British Lion.

The song was later made internationally famous, by The Weavers as " Wimoweh " in 1948 and then as " The Lion Sleeps Tonight " by the Tokens in 1961.

Ondaatje's later and more famous novel The English Patient is, in part, a sequel to In the Skin of a Lion, continuing the characters of Hana and Caravaggio, as well as revealing the fate of this novel's main character, Patrick Lewis.

Although the book credit for the new illustrations reads " Adapted from the famous pictures by W. w. Denslow ", Copelman's versions of the characters were largely based on the way they looked in the 1939 MGM Technicolor film version, although the Cowardly Lion looked quite different, and Dorothy had braids rather than long pigtails, as Judy Garland did in the film.

The studio proved moderately successful, but became most famous due to the Leo the Lion trademark.

* GWR Iron Duke Class, the name of a famous class of locomotive built by the Great Western Railway in England

* 1962 – Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line ( UK ) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 Evening Star.

The museum is famous for its Run A Locomotive program, where the public can participate in a " fantasy experience " program allowing them to run a railroad locomotive on the museum grounds.

The Science Museum now holds a collection of over 300, 000 items, including such famous items as Stephenson's Rocket, Puffing Billy ( the oldest surviving steam locomotive ), the first jet engine, a reconstruction of Francis Crick and James Watson's model of DNA, some of the earliest remaining steam engines, a working example of Charles Babbage's Difference engine ( and the latter, preserved half brain ), the first prototype of the 10, 000-year Clock of the Long Now, and documentation of the first typewriter.

This was the famous steam locomotive, Puffing Billy which first ran in 1813 and is now preserved at the Science Museum in London.

Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley ( 19 June 1876 – 5 April 1941 ) was one of Britain's most famous steam locomotive engineers, who rose to become Chief Mechanical Engineer ( CME ) of the London and North Eastern Railway ( LNER ).

Sarah's most famous hymn was " Nearer, My God, to Thee ", apparently written at Loughton in 1840, while William, a locomotive engineer, was the inventor of the fishplate used to connect rail tracks.

It was known as the Mountain type on other roads, but the mighty New York Central didn't see the name to be fitting on its famous Water Level Route, so it instead picked the name of one of those rivers its rails followed, the Mohawk River, to name its newest type of locomotive.

During this period Gresley produced the majority of his famous locomotives and innovations, and Bulleid had a hand in many of them, including the P1 2-8-2 freight locomotive, the U1 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 Garratt freight locomotive, the P2 2-8-2 express locomotive and the A4 4-6-2 express locomotive.

In late 2006, Lionel began delivering an updated remake of its largest steam locomotive, the famous 4-8-4 Northern, as well as a gray Union Pacific Northern with smoke deflectors ( elephant ears ); both new versions have digital sounds.

The Kylchap steam locomotive exhaust system was designed and patented by the famous French steam engineer André Chapelon, using a second-stage nozzle designed by the Finnish engineer Kyösti Kylälä and known as the Kylälä spreader ; thus the name KylChap for this design.

Later he would build the famous Rocket in his locomotive works in Newcastle.

Wolsztyn is famous as the location of a locomotive roundhouse, which is the last place in Europe to supply steam locomotives for regular, timetabled train services on the national railway network.

He was the nephew of Matthew Kirtley, the Midland's famous locomotive superintendent.

Chessie had four famous diesel-electric locomotives in its fleet: B & O 1977 ( an EMD GP40-2 ) was meant to celebrate the B & O's 150th anniversary ( this locomotive became B & O 4100 and B & O 4163 ; for a short time there were two B & O locomotives numbered 1977 ), B & O GM50 ( another EMD GP40-2 ) was painted gold to celebrate GM-EMD's 50th anniversary as a diesel locomotive manufacturer ( GM50 got repainted in 1984 and became B & O 4164 ), B & O # 3802: An EMD GP38 named the All American Locomotive by Trains in 1982, and B & O 4444 ( 3rd to last GP40-2 owned by Chessie, last unit was B & O 4447 ) was the locomotive that pulled Ronald Reagan's 1984 presidential train through Ohio.

He designed famous steam locomotive classes such as the Duke Class, the Bulldog Class and the long-lived 2301 Class.

His son Robert designed the famous and historically important steam locomotive named Rocket for the Rainhill Trials at Liverpool in 1829Haworth 2004: The Making of a Prodigy.