Robert Stephenson and Company
British locomotive manufacturer (1823–1937) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Robert Stephenson and Company was a locomotive manufacturing company founded in 1823 in Forth Street, Newcastle upon Tyne in England. It was the first company in the world created specifically to build railway engines.
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Industry | Locomotive manufacturing |
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Founded | 1823; 201 years ago (1823) in Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
Founders | |
Defunct | 1937 (1937) |
Fate | Merged with Hawthorn Leslie |
Successor | Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns |
Headquarters | Darlington, England , United Kingdom |
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Famous early locomotives were Locomotion No. 1 and Rocket. By 1899, 3,000 locomotives had been built at the Forth Street site, and a new company was formed, Robert Stephenson and Company Limited, and the Darlington works was opened.
In 1937, the company merged with Hawthorn Leslie to form Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns. In 1944, they became part of English Electric.