The Discovery Museum in Newcastle was doing its bit for the
Great Exhibition of the North by bringing back the Rocket to its birthplace, which
was just down the road at the Forth Street Works of Robert Stephenson.
Having read Simon Garfield’s excellent account of The Last
Journey of William Huskisson, instead of marvelling at the locomotive’s enormous
contribution to railway development, I find that I’m standing there thinking
about the accident.
I went outside in search of
Hitachi’s Azuma. Between them, they span the entirety of the existence of passenger
railways and fittingly, the new stock is also being put together [using
Japanese-made body shells] in the north east of England at Newton Aycliffe.
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