| | Page |
| Portrait of George Stephenson to face title page | |
| High Level Bridge, to face | 1 |
| Map of Newcastle District | 2 |
| Flange rail | 6 |
| Coal-staith on the Tyne | 10 |
| Coal waggons | 11 |
| Wylam Colliery and village | 12 |
| High Street House, Wylam—George Stephenson’s birthplace | 14 |
| Newburn on the Tyne | 20 |
| Colliery Whimsey | 30 |
| Stephenson’s Cottage, Willington Quay | 31 |
| West Moor Colliery | 37 |
| Killingworth High Pit | 46 |
| Glebe Farm House, Benton | 47 |
| Rutter’s School House, Long Benton | 51 |
| Bruce’s School, Newcastle | 53 |
| Stephenson’s Cottage, West Moor | 57 |
| Sun-dial at Killingworth | 60 |
| Colliers’ Cottages at Long Benton | 62 |
| Cugnot’s Engine | 64 |
| Section of Murdock’s Model Locomotive | 66 |
| Trevithick’s high-pressure Tram-Engine | 70 |
| Improved Wylam Engine | 78 |
| Spur-gear | 83 |
| The Pit-head, West Moor | 91 |
| Davy’s and Stephenson’s Safety-lamps | 101 |
| West Moor Pit, Killingworth | 108 |
| Half-lap joint | 111 |
| Old Killingworth Locomotive | 113 |
| Map of Stockton and Darlington Railway | 123 |
| Portrait of Edward Pease | 124 |
| The first Railway Coach | 139 |
| The No. 1 Engine at Darlington | 142 |
| Middlesborough-on-Tees | 145 |
| Map of Liverpool and Manchester Railway (Western Part) | 150 |
| ,, (Eastern part) | 151 |
| Surveying on Chat Moss | 172 |
| Olive Mount Cutting | 184 |
| Sankey Viaduct | 186 |
| Robert Stephenson’s Cottage at Santa Anna | 198 |
| The “Rocket” | 212 |
| Locomotive competition, Rainhill | 215 |
| Railway versus Road | 220 |
| Map of Leicester and Swannington Railway | 233 |
| Stephenson’s House at Alton Grange | 236 |
| Portrait of Robert Stephenson, to face | 237 |
| Map of London and Birmingham Railway (Rugby to Watford) | 242 |
| Blisworth Cutting | 243 |
| Shafts over Kilsby Tunnel | 246 |
| Dutton Viaduct | 254 |
| Entrance to Summit Tunnel, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway | 256 |
| Land-slip, near Ambergate, North Midland Railway | 259 |
| Bullbridge, near Ambergate | 260 |
| Coalville and Snibston Colliery | 274 |
| Tapton House, near Chesterfield | 275 |
| Lime-works at Ambergate | 278 |
| Newcastle, from the High Level Bridge | 301 |
| Royal Border Bridge, Berwick-upon-Tweed | 311 |
| High Level Bridge—Elevation of one Arch | 318 |
| Penmaen Mawr | 322 |
| Map of Menai Straits | 325 |
| Conway Tubular Bridge | 334 |
| Britannia Bridge | 339 |
| Conway Bridge—Floating the first Tube | 340 |
| View in Tapton Gardens | 341 |
| Pathway to Tapton House | 347 |
| Trinity Church, Chesterfield | 355 |
| Tablet in Trinity Church, Chesterfield | 356 |
| The Victoria Bridge, Montreal | 357 |
| Robert Stephenson’s Burial-place in Westminster Abbey | 369 |
| The Stephenson Memorial Schools, Willington Quay | 380 |
