Remarkable survivors from the 1825 S&D

With this year’s ‘Railway 200’ celebrations now upon us, DR JOSEPH BRENNAN looks at the remnants from the original 1825 Stockton & Darlington Railway that we can still see today

The Stockton & Darlington Railway, as described in London Mechanic’s Magazine in the October 17 1829 edition, is a railway “on which steam-power was for the first time employed to propel passengers as well as goods, and with a degree of success which began to open the eyes of the public to advantages of which they had not even dreamt”. It’s a statement demonstrating that even before the close of the decade during which it opened, the S&DR was already being celebrated as the start of the railways as we now know it. Little wonder, therefore, that so much excitement (and preparation) has accompanied the lead-up to the S&DR’s bicentenary in 2025 (the line having opened on September 27 1825). Over the coming months, RAIL will carry various heritage stories.…

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