The little-known birthplace of modern travel in North East England
The Stockton and Darlington Railway started a communication revolution akin to the internet – let’s celebrate its 200th birthday
18 April 2021 • 3:00pm
A walking and cycling path which runs parallel to the original working railway lines, between Stockton-on-Tees and the collieries at Shildon, to celebrate the Royal Assent
Credit: VisitBritain//Thomas Heaton
It’s a big-budget movie waiting to happen. Virile working men with gritty personalities are pitched against landed aristocrats resistant to change. An epoch-making vision of the future of the world is hatched in a windswept corner of northern England. Blood, sweat and blueprints. A huffing, puffing machine made with man’s bare hands is born. “The Invention of Railways” – starring British A-listers and a legion of extras from Co Durham. The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was granted Royal Assent 200 years ago on April 19. The line woul
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