Editing Stephenson's Rocket (section)

== Replicas ==
[[file:Buster Rocket.jpg|thumb | left |[[Buster Keaton]] made whimsical use of his replica ''Rocket'' in ''[[Our Hospitality]]''.]]
[[file:Rocket_and_Albert_Hall.jpg|thumb|Rocket steam replica, Albert Hall and a [[British European Airways#City centre check-in facilities|BEA Routemaster]] bus in 1979]]

In 1923, [[Buster Keaton]] had a functioning replica built for the film ''[[Our Hospitality]]''.<ref>''Buster Keaton: Interviews'', by Buster Keaton, Kevin W. Sweeney</ref> Two years later, the replica was used again in the [[Alfred St. John|Al St. John]] film, ''[[The Iron Mule]]'', directed by Keaton's mentor, [[Roscoe Arbuckle|Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015953/|title=The Iron Mule|date=12 April 1925|access-date=14 July 2018|publisher=IMDb}}</ref> The subsequent whereabouts of the replica are unknown. There are, however, at least two other replicas of ''Rocket'' in the US,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.steamlocomotive.com/lists/search.php?str=0-2-2&country=USA |title=Surviving Steam Locomotive Search |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521103936/http://www.steamlocomotive.com/lists/search.php?str=0-2-2&country=USA |archive-date=21 May 2011 |website=steamlocomotive.com }}</ref> both built by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns in 1929; one is at the [[The Henry Ford|Henry Ford Museum]] in the [[Metro Detroit]] suburb of [[Dearborn, Michigan|Dearborn]], [[Michigan]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.enuii.com/vulcan_foundry/RS%26H/index.htm|title=Robert Stephenson Stephensons Hawthorn Darlington Rocket|website=enuii.com|access-date=14 July 2018|archive-date=14 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180214033157/http://www.enuii.com/vulcan_foundry/RS%26H/index.htm|url-status=usurped}}</ref> the other at the [[Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.steamlocomotive.com/union/|title=Chicago Area Steam|website=steamlocomotive.com|access-date=14 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713231240/http://www.steamlocomotive.com/union/|archive-date=13 July 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The earliest full-size replica of ''Rocket'' seems to have been one depicted on a [[London and North Western Railway]] postcard (therefore pre-1923).<ref name="LNWR postcard">{{cite web |url=http://postcard-heaven.co.uk/images/lnwr%20stephensons%20rocket%201829%20revised%201904.jpg |title=Stephenoson's Rocket 1829 Image |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110825002828/http://postcard-heaven.co.uk/images/lnwr%20stephensons%20rocket%201829%20revised%201904.jpg |archive-date=25 August 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://cache2.asset-cache.net/xc/3270859.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=45B0EB3381F7834D6CE8A153E5DDB3A9A47ACA0D87C699BD8D143FD4AE7FC81B |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305160903/http://cache2.asset-cache.net/xc/3270859.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=45B0EB3381F7834D6CE8A153E5DDB3A9A47ACA0D87C699BD8D143FD4AE7FC81B |archive-date=5 March 2012 |type=JPG |url-status=usurped |title=Rocket}}</ref>

A cut-away static replica was built in 1935 and displayed for many years next to the original at London's Science Museum.
In 1979, a further, working [[replica]] ''Rocket'' was built by Locomotion Enterprises in the Springwell workshops at the Bowes Railway for the 150th anniversary celebrations.<ref name=":0">{{cite magazine |last=Satow |first=M. G.|title=Rocket reborn |magazine=Railway Magazine |volume=125|pages=472–474 |date=October 1979 |issue=942 |editor-first=J.N. |editor-last=Slater |publisher=IPC Transport Press |location=London }}</ref> It first worked in public on a short length of track in front of the [[Albert Memorial]] in [[Kensington Gardens]] from 25 August to 2 September 1979, before going to Newcastle on 9 September, York on 16 October<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Notes + News|magazine=Railway Magazine|volume=125|page=508 |date=October 1979|issue=942 |editor-first=J.N.|editor-last=Slater |publisher=IPC Transport Press|location=London}}</ref> and running the measured mile, between [[Lea Green railway station|Lea Green]] and Rainhill, on the last two days at the Rocket 150 celebrations from 24 to 26 May 1980.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Rocket 150|magazine=Railway Magazine|volume=126|pages=226–227 |date=May 1980|issue=949 |editor-first=J.N.|editor-last=Slater |publisher=IPC Transport Press|location=London}}</ref> It has a shorter [[chimney]] than the original to clear the bridge at Rainhill: successive additions of [[Track ballast|ballast]] and heavier rail have raised the track, leaving less headroom than in the 19th century. As of 2022, both of these replicas were based at the [[National Railway Museum]], York, with the original ''Rocket''.