The Rocket Men Magazine

Marking the 2014 bicentenary of Stephenson's first locomotive, this new biography looks in detail at the son of an illiterate colliery hand who used his first wages to educate himself at evening school and coming from nowhere, went on reshape the globe through steam railways. It is also the story of his son Robert, who went on to become a greater engineer than his father, designing railways, locomotives and ground breaking bridges across the world.