by Jonathan Ratcliffe | Nov 18, 2025 | News
The Friends of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, a charity set up in 2013 to safeguard and promote the Stockton & Darlington Railway as the world changing birthplace of the modern railway has been awarded The King’s Award for Voluntary Service for 2025. This...
by Jonathan Ratcliffe | Oct 31, 2025 | News
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825, Cleveland & Teesside Local History Society and the Friends of the Stockton & Darlington Railway collaborated to fund a prize essay competition. After careful...
by Jonathan Ratcliffe | Mar 11, 2025 | News
As part of the many exciting events taking place this year to celebrate 200 years since the start of the modern railway with the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, County Councillors in Durham have joined forces with the Friends of the Stockton &...
by Jonathan Ratcliffe | Mar 11, 2025 | News
Almost 90 years ago the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), installed huge signs on the railway lineside between London and Edinburgh to indicate to passengers places of interest and the distance to their destinations while travelling on their new streamlined...
by Jonathan Ratcliffe | Jan 18, 2025 | News
2025 marks the 200th birthday of the Stockton & Darlington Railway and with it the start of the modern railway era which changed the face of the world. A major festival this year (www.SDR200.co.uk), will celebrate this in fine style alongside the wider Railway 200...
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