Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

George Stephenson NPG D13734

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Thomas Lewis Atkinson, after John Lucas

Stephenson, the inventor and founder of railways, was a practical engineer without formal education who became interested in developing more efficient rails and locomotives. In 1814, he tested his first 'steam-blast' locomotive which drew thirty tonnes of coal at four miles an hour. After his pioneering work on the Stockton and Darlington Railway (1825), he won the contract for the Manchester and Liverpool Line in 1826. The success of both lines was increased by the newly designed Rocket (1829), an engine which travelled at 29... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.