The life story of 'the father of the railways,' George Stephenson:
An entertaining and informative comedy, it tells the life story of the innovative pioneer and father of the modern railway system. It revolves around one of the great controveries of the Railway Revolution, when technological advances were racing ahead as rapidly as today. Featuring the great names of the steam age and covering the intriguing possibility that Stephenson may have used the ideas of a rival, Timothy Hackworth, in designing his revolutiony new locomotive The Rocket!
Available on DVD.
Written by Valerie Laws
Directed by Tony Glover for Tony Glover Film & Video Limited.
Produced by Tony Haxon for Pluto Theatre & Media and Angela Brockbank for the Railway Heritage Project.
Sound Ian McKie, Edited by John Kyle.
Harry Herring as George Stephenson : Neil Armstrong as Robert Stephenson : Dave Hadaway as Edward Pease : Dave Redliffe as Timothy Hackworth : Harry Gallagher as Nicholas Wood: Ann Lertoria as the Presenter.
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