The Stockton and Darlington Railway was a railway company that operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863. The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, its first line connected col
In the Opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, a watercolour painted in the 1880s by John Dobbin, crowds watch the inaugural train cross the Skerne Bridge in Darlington.
The seal of the Stockton & Darlington Railway
Stephenson's iron bridge across the Gaunless
The opening procession of the Stockton and Darlington Railway crosses the Skerne bridge
The South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway built a railway line linking the Stockton and Darlington Railway near Bishop Auckland with the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway at Tebay, via Barnard Castle
The viaduct over the Tees Valley in 1858
The seal of the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway
Snowploughs on the line
Barnard Castle station in 1965, just after closure