s, 24, 48, 60;
learns to brake an engine, 26;
duties as brakesman, 27;
soles shoes, 28;
saves his first guinea, 29;
fights with a pitman, 30;
marries Fanny Henderson, 33;
heaves ballast, 34;
cleans clocks, 35;
death of his wife, 36;
goes to Scotland, 37;
returns home, 38;
brakesman at West Moor, Killingworth, 39;
drawn for the militia, 40;
takes a brakeing contract, 41;
cures pumping-engine, 42;
engine-wright to the colliery, 46;
evenings with John Wigham, 48;
education of his son, 50-4;
cottage at West Moor, 57;
the sun-dial, 60;
erects winding and pumping engines, 61;
study of locomotive, 62;
makes his first travelling-engine, 82;
invents the steam-blast, 85;
second locomotive, 85;
fire in the main, personal courage, 90;
invents and tests his safety-lamps, 93, 102;
the Stephenson testimonial, 105;
further improvements in the Killingworth locomotive, 110;
constructs the Hetton Railway, 117;
surveys and constructs the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 128;
his second wife, 129;
starts a Locomotive Manufactory, 132;
appointed engineer of the Liverpool and Manchester line, 154;
examined before Parliamentary Committee, 162;
the Railway across Chat Moss, 173-86, 192;
life at home, 190;
the "Rocket" constructed, 210;
public opening of Liverpool and Manchester line, 223;
engineer of Grand Junction, 230;
purchases Snibston Colliery, and removes to Alton Grange, 234;
appointed joint engineer of London and Birmingham Railway, 237;
engineer of Manchester and Leeds Railway, 253;
of Midland Railway, 257;
of York and North Midland Railway, 261;
life at Alton Grange, 263;
visit to Belgium and interviews with King Leopold, 267;
takes lease of Clayross Colliery, 277;
lime-works at Ambergate, residence at Tapton House, 278;
appearance at Mechanics' Institutes, 280;
opinions of railway speed, 282;
views as to atmospheric system of working, 287;
opposes the railway mania, 290;
again visits Belgium, 295;
visit to Spain, 297;
retires from the profession of engineering, 301;
Newcastle and Berwick Railway, and Chester and Holyhead Railway,
307;
habits, conversation, etc., 343;