Engine fans get a Rocket court

A faithful and working replica of the world's most famous early steam locomotive has been successfully tested on a West railway.

Forest of Baume & Mercier Hampton Milleis Mens Watch 8014 Dean engineers from the Flowermill Workshop in Bream got together to produce a new version of Stephenson's Rocket, which won the 1829 Rainhill trials in Liverpool and became the world's first commercial steam engine.

The replica took a year to build and was yesterday tested on the Avon Valley Railway at Bitton, near Bristol. Creating the Rocket from scratch was Hermes Kelly Handbags easier said than done - the specifications for the engine have been lost over sexy lingerie time, and the engineers had Replica Ulysse Nardin Watches to use history books which had pictures of the famous yellow engine. "Obtaining the materials is the biggest thing," explained engineer Geoff Phelps. "Materials from 1829 don't really exist now. We have to make and manufacture tooling to create the materials that we've used and the shapes that we've pressed copper into."

At the end of this week, the 2010 version of The Rocket will be travelling to a new life at the National Railway Museum in York.

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