Midgeholme Railway
For information see Lord Carlisle's Railway
Also known as Lord Carlisle's Railway, the Tindale Fell Railway, the Hartleyburn and Brampton Railway and simply the Brampton Railway.
Robert Stephenson and Co: Rocket: 'For after the Rainhill trials, it was altered before the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was opened in 1830, while a year later the cylinders were lowered to a nearly horizontal position, and a complete smoke-box and shorter chimney were fitted. In 1836, the “Rocket” was sold to Messrs. Thompson, of Kirkhouse, and worked on the Midgeholme Railway until 1844. During this period it is said on one occasion to have covered four miles in four minutes. In 1851, it was sent to Newcastle to be prepared for display at the Great Exhibition of that year, but this intention was not carried out, and the engine remained in that city until 1862, when such parts of it as remained were presented to the Patent Office Museum. ....'[1]