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Rocket back in its home town

STEPHENSON’S Rocket is back in the town of its birth, ready to take a central role in the Great Exhibition of the North.

The Tyneside-built icon has been moved from London’s Science Museum, its home since 1862, to Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s Discovery Museum, where it will be displayed from June 22 to September 9, next to Charles Parsons’Turbinia the first

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