Article: Steaming ahead on legend's legacy; From humble beginnings he shaped city.(News)

Byline: Tony Henderson

HE was born 206 years ago this week in humble circumstances on the banks of the Tyne at Willington Quay, where his parents rented one room.

Yet Robert Stephenson, who died 150 years ago yesterday, became only the second engineer in British history to be buried in Westminster Abbey.

He was the force behind the development of the modern locomotive and the railway system, and his invention of the tubular girder meant that great bridges - and ultimately skyscrapers - could be built.

Two of the region's most famous ...

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