The York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway was an English railway company formed in 1847 by the amalgamation of the York and Newcastle Railway as well as the Newcastle and Berwick Railway. Both companies
The York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway Company seal
One of the Stanhope and Tyne's locomotives
Oil painting of Victoria Viaduct by John Carmichael
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
York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway
…south-western part of the line from Stanhope to Carrhouse was sold to the Derwent Iron Company, which operated at Consett. It formed an alliance with the Stockton and Darlington Railway and in time a railway connection through Bishop Auckland and that section became part of the Stockton and Darlington Railway system. From 1840 passenger…
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 and Darlington Railway
Stephenson's iron bridge across the Gaunless
The opening procession of the Stockton and Darlington Railway crosses the Skerne bridge