George Stephenson's Birthplace

George Stephenson's Birthplace is the modest stone cottage in Wylam, Northumberland, where the father of the railways was born in 1781. The single-room tenement, shared by several families, illustrates the humble origins of the engineer who built the Rocket locomotive and pioneered the world's first public railway. The cottage contains displays on Stephenson's life and the early history of rail travel.