£8.99
Caroline Hardie & Friends of Stockton & Darlington Railway
Publication Date: 2021
Format & Edition: Paperback, First Edition
Pagination: 38 Pages, 36 Illustrations
Condition: New
Genre: Stockton & Darlington Railway
Status: In Stock
The Stockton & Darlington Railway: The Railway that got the World on Track by Caroline Hardie and Friends of the Stockton & Darlington Railway.
The Stockton & Darlington Railway opened on the 27th September 1825. This was the start of the modern railway network that went on to cover the rest of the UK and the world.
The 26 mile long mainline was located in the north east of England in the county of Durham. It ran from the coal mines near Witton Park to the River Tees at Stockton, via Darlington and Yarm where there were two branch lines. Within the next five years it had an additional three branch lines at Croft, Haggerleases and Middlesbrough.
Over the following decades, as railways spread across the world, the S&DR also expanded its network of tracks reaching as far as Barnard Castle, Tebay, Redcar, Saltburn and Weardale. It was amalgamated with the North Eastern Railway in 1863.
This is the story of the world’s first railway, its 200th anniversary in 2025.