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Robert Stephenson and Company Limited
IndustryLocomotive manufacturing
Founded1823; 201 years ago (1823) in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Founders
  • George Stephenson
  • Robert Stephenson
  • Edward Pease
  • Thomas Richardson
Defunct1937 (1937)
FateMerged with Hawthorn Leslie
SuccessorRobert Stephenson and Hawthorns
Headquarters
Darlington, England
,
United Kingdom

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.

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.

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