Monthly news update covering April 2023

Dear Friends, By the time you’ve received this we will have interviewed for our first employed staff member. Thanks to generous donations we are now able to appoint a part time secretary support post. The new office holder will be a significant help to your...
Support for teachers.

Support for teachers.

With support from Historic England’s Heritage Schools programme, The Friends of the Stockton & Darlington Railway commissioned a review of existing learning resources and together with our partners at three key regional museums at Locomotion (Shildon), Head of...
Revised walks booklets

Revised walks booklets

Our updated and newly designed walks booklets covering West Auckland to Shildon and the Shildon Circular are now up for sale on our web site shop. Ranging from 32 to 48 pages of fully illustrated juicy information about the S&DR, they are designed to share...
The Leonard Raisbeck Archive

The Leonard Raisbeck Archive

National Railway Museum York The Leonard Raisbeck Archive held by the National Railway Museum (NRM) contains some of the earliest, never-seen-before papers from the dawn of the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) and documents the life and work of Leonard...