LNER has certainly got the 200th anniversary year of the railways off to an impressive start by naming a loco “Darlington”. Some might say that the Echo is a little biased when it comes to ...

Between March and November, a series of events will be staged to mark the importance of the Stockton and Darlington Railway ... replica of the Locomotion No 1 locomotive, coal wagons and the ...

A crowd of hundreds gathered on Platform 1 of Darlington Station at 10am to get their ... Shildon to Stockton was the first time a steam locomotive was used to haul passengers and freight, marking ...

"At Heighington, just outside Newton Aycliffe, we have what Historic England calls the world's first passenger station ... locomotives at Shildon's Locomotion museum The Stockton and Darlington ...

Since the Stockton and Darlington railway ... Road side of the station several buildings are being removed to make way for an extension to the station, with the old and the new sites linked ...

BR Class 24 Loco Add-On As the first diesel locomotives to be built at BR's Darlington Works, the Class 24 was built as part of the British Rail Modernisation Plan in the late 1950s. The Class 24 ...