Stockton & Darlington Railway

  • County Durham station now believed to be the world’s oldest railway station

    County Durham station now believed to be the world’s oldest railway station

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    A County Durham railway station has been found to be older than first thought and is now believed to be the world’s oldest railway station, new research has discovered.

  • From the archive: Stockton and Darlington Railway

    From the archive: Stockton and Darlington Railway

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    Read this fascinating archive article on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, with words and photography as originally printed in the July 1925 issue of The Railway Magazine.

  • Great steam Engineers of the nineteenth century: Part 5 – the 1860s

    Great steam Engineers of the nineteenth century: Part 5 – the 1860s

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    Steam locomotives grew larger, more powerful and faster during the 1860s. Brian Sharpe outlines how the jobs of the locomotive superintendents of the major railway companies also grew ever larger, in terms of their responsibilities and the huge workforces under their control.  The 1860s was a time of expansion for the GWR. After the Gauge…

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