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Two centuries on from the birth of the worlds first passenger trainline, Rob Crossan goes in search of the historical roots of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, and discovers some very odd facts indeed

After its £35m overhaul, Darlington railway heritage zone is going to be reborn next year with a new name: Hopetown Darlington.

Read this fascinating archive article on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, with words and photography as originally printed in the July 1925 issue of The ...

IMAGINE the drama. In front of 10,000 excited, and perhaps a little tipsy, railway fans, the greatest engineers of the day went head to head to…

One of the world’s most famous and historic steam locomotives arrived wrapped in a blue tarpaulin on the back of a low loader at Shildon yesterday…

ONE of the world’s most famous and historic steam locomotives arrived wrapped in a blue tarpaulin on the back of a low loader at Shildon this…

MIKE NORMAN’S grandfather, Bailey Cornforth, was a railway footplateman who lived in Shildon opposite the school named after the pioneering…

York author restores a forgotten engineer to his rightful place at the forefront of the railway revolution in ground-breaking new book.

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SHILDON’S oldest surviving railway building is going to be open next weekend as a Friends group are holding their annual general meeting nearby.