Please click on the event title for full information, including locations, times and whether booking is required. Registrations will automatically close 24 hours before the event to give us time to process them. Please contact us at secretary@sdr1825.org.uk after this as we may be able to accommodate you if we have spaces left.

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Garden Open Day on the Etherley Incline

Etherley Incline

Sunday 15th August, Mary Smith, our Etherley Incline Witton Park Colliery Group secretary,  will be opening her garden at Hillside Cottages, for the National Open Garden Scheme from 1.30  - 4.30pm -  admission £5.00. Refreshments available. This garden overlooks the Etherley Incline and we will be having a stall, where we will give out information […]

£5.00

Bramble picking with the Railway Pioneers of St. Helen Auckland

St. Helen Auckland parish church Manor Road, St. Helen Auckland, United Kingdom

On Tuesday 31st August WASH (our area group covering West Auckland and St. Helen Auckland) are inviting you to bramble with us from 10.15am in St Helen Auckland Parish Churchyard, NZ 18835 26773. There will be a guided tour of seven gravestones related to S&DR early employees and their families including Storey, Young, Booth, Greener, […]

Free

Friends of the S&DR AGM 2021

Darlington Cricket Club THE CLUB HOUSE Feethams South Terrace, Darlington, United Kingdom

Friends of the Stockton & Darlington Railway – Annual General Meeting. Thursday 2nd September 2021 at Darlington Cricket Club. Doors open at 7.00 pm with meeting starting at 7.10 pm. Did you know???? Darlington Cricket Club is nearly as old as the S&DR! They recorded their first ever match in 1827 - the year the […]

Free

Friends of the S&DR AGM

Darlington Cricket Club THE CLUB HOUSE Feethams South Terrace, Darlington, United Kingdom

Papers and an agenda can be found in the Members' section of this web site.

Free

Rail Heritage Exhibition

Shildon Railway Institute Shildon, United Kingdom

Rail stories told by local societies through images, objects, sounds, words and film.

Free

Brusselton Incline Group Open Day

Whistle Stop Cafe Redworth Road, Shildon

On Saturday 18th September, the Brusselton Incline Group, an area group of the Friends of the S&DR, will be hosting an open day from 10.00 am. This will be held in the Whistle Stop Cafe, Redworth Road in New Shildon, the Cradle of the Railways. A display of the work carried out by the group […]

Free

Beer and Bread Tour No.1

Stockton High Street , United Kingdom

The story of the navvies who built the S&DR and how they celebrated on the opening night. A guided tour around Stockton's taverns. No free beer but free nibbles at the end of the walk. Meet at the Market Cross at 7pm and bring your ticket with you. Book your tickets here: johnharris@interacting.info

Free

Beer and Bread Guided Tour No.2

Stockton High Street , United Kingdom

The story of the navvies who built the S&DR and how they celebrated on the opening night. A guided tour around Stockton’s taverns. No free beer but free nibbles at the end of the walk. Meet at the Market Cross at 7pm and bring your ticket with you. Book your tickets here: johnharris@interacting.info

Free

Beer and Bread Guided Tour No.3

Stockton High Street , United Kingdom

The story of the navvies who built the S&DR and how they celebrated on the opening night. A guided tour around Stockton’s taverns. No free beer but free nibbles at the end of the walk. Meet at the Market Cross at 7pm and bring your ticket with you. Book your tickets here: johnharris@interacting.info

Free

CELEBRATIONS OF THE 196th ANNIVERSARY of the S&DR

Toft Hill & Etherley Community Centre

Etherley & Witton Park Colliery Group at the Toft Hill  Community Hall. Tom Walker demonstrates the MODEL STEAM ENGINE BUILT BY THOMAS GREENER of ETHERLEY. Register with John Raw 01833 663764; ‘e’mail: jraw2883@aol.com

Free