Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was a railway company that operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863. The world's first public railway to...
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19th century, Darlington remained a small market town. The Stockton and Darlington Railway ran steam locomotives designed for passengers and goods, built...
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The 1825 to 1863 Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was the world's first public railway to use steam locomotives. Its first line connected collieries...
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Middlesbrough and Saltburn. Darlington is the location of the first commercial steam railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway. The station building is...
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Locomotion No. 1 (category Locomotives of the Stockton and Darlington Railway)
train on a public railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR). Locomotion was ordered by the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company in September...
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Stockton railway station served the town of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England, from 1825 to 1848 on the Stockton and Darlington Railway. The station...
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located on the 1825 route of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which was the world's first steam-powered passenger railway. It is based inside the station...
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originally South Stockton, is a railway station on the Tees Valley Line, which runs between Bishop Auckland and Saltburn via Darlington. The station, situated...
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Stockton Stockton Rush (1962–2023), American businessman and CEO Stockton Airport (disambiguation) Stockton and Darlington Railway, England Stockton –...
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on a public rail line, the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825. George also built the first public inter-city railway line in the world to use locomotives...
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1858), a woollen manufacturer from Darlington, England, was the main promoter of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which opened in 1825. He is sometimes...
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British proponent and supporter of the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company, one of first public railway systems in the world, and was the first Quaker...
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Tees Valley line (category Railway lines in North East England)
The Tees Valley Line is a railway route in Northern England, following part of the original Stockton and Darlington Railway route of 1825. The line covers...
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Robert Stephenson (category British railway pioneers)
landowners and did not pass. The route was changed, Overton carried out another survey and an act of Parliament, the Stockton and Darlington Railway Act 1821...
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Darlington Works was established in 1863 by the Stockton and Darlington Railway in the town of Darlington in the north east of England. The main part...
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Timothy Hackworth (category English railway mechanical engineers)
in Shildon, County Durham, England and was the first locomotive superintendent of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. Timothy Hackworth was born in Wylam...
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the former Stockton and Darlington Railway's opening; the 1825 Way's northern end is St John's Crossing, adjacent to the old Stockton Railway Station buildings...
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who had recently built the Hetton colliery railway, as engineer. Traffic on the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was originally intended to be horse-drawn...
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subsumed the company into the Stockton & Darlington Railway. The line became the eastern link between Darlington and Tebay as part of the 51-mile (82 km)...
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Shildon (category Railway towns in England)
it having the first station, built in 1825, and locomotive works on the Stockton and Darlington Railway. The name Shildon comes from the Old English...
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successor to the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the NER had a reputation for innovation. It was a pioneer in architectural and design matters and in electrification...
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Rail transport (redirect from Trains and Railways)
The first passenger railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opened in 1825. The quick spread of railways throughout Europe and North America, following...
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Works, also known as the Stockton and Darlington Railway Carriage Works, was a carriage works of the Stockton and Darlington Railway built in 1853 in Hopetown...
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Durham and Lancashire Union Railway (SD&LUR) built a railway line linking the Stockton and Darlington Railway near Bishop Auckland with the Lancaster and Carlisle...
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closely linked with the history of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, being the site of the original Darlington station. The station building, now a museum...
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becomes the route of the Stockton and Darlington Railway May 31 – Edward Pease, first owner of the Stockton and Darlington Railway (died 1858). Years in...
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Low Etherley (category Stockton and Darlington Railway)
Bishop Auckland. In 1825 the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened a horse-drawn branch line, the Etherley Incline Railway, from West Auckland to serve...
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the Clarence Railway opening in 1833. The railway, owned by Christopher Tennant, was a rival to the Stockton and Darlington Railway and transported coal...
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and was a competitor to the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR). It suffered financial difficulty soon after it opened because traffic was low and...
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the cars for a ride. September 27 – Official opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in the north of England, engineered by George Stephenson. Steam...
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