24 Feb 2021
RAIL HISTORY: Timothy Hackworth, great-great-grandfather of Teesdale s Jane Hackworth-Young.
AFTER nearly 200 years, descendants of the original railway pioneers have been reunited to promote the historic line that their forefathers were instrumental in creating. Matthew Pease, the great-great-great-great-grandson of Edward “Father of the Railways” Pease has become the President of the Friends of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR), while Jane Hackworth-Young, the great-great-
granddaughter of Timothy Hackworth, has become the organisation’s vice president. Edward Pease was the driving force behind the railway, which is regarded as the birthplace of the modern railway, and Timothy Hackworth was the superintendent engineer when the line opened on September 27, 1825.