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Our October 2024 Members Meeting will be held at Darlington Cricket Club. Non-members are welcome to attend but will not be able to vote on items. Papers for the meeting are available for download below: 2024 - October Meeting Chair's Activity Report 2024-09-05 Minutes 2024-10-03 FSDR Meeting Agenda BIG-WASH-EIWPG Report Editor & webmaster October 2024 […]
Our 2024 AGM will take place at Darlington Baptist Church, Grange Road Darlington on Saturday 9th November 2024. Please book using the link below to let us know how many are coming. (We don't want to run out of coffee!) Book Here The papers for the meeting are below: 2024 AGM Agenda FSDR Chairs Report […]
Continuing our programme to revise and update our self-guided walks booklets before 2025, our next Walking the Line event will be on the 1st December at 11am. We will meet at the foot of the steps up to the Goods Shed, Hopetown on the corner of McNay Street and North Road. This is immediately adjacent […]
Our December 2024 Members Meeting will be held at Darlington Railway Tavern. Non-members are welcome to attend but will not be able to vote on items. The Papers for the meeting are available for download from the below links: The Chair will be summarising the last year and a copy of his report will be […]
Our first meeting of 2025 will take place at the Railway Tavern, Darlington on Thursday 9th January at 7pm. Papers will be circulated to members in advance of the meeting.
Our February Meeting will take place on Thursday 6th February 2025 at Darlington Cricket Club starting at 7pm. Papers will be circulated to members in advance of the meeting.
A linear walk from Allen's West Station to Eaglescliffe Station via Preston park Meet at Allen's West Station for 10:30am Distance about 3.5 miles Terrain is a mixture of paved and gravel paths with a short path across a grassed area.
Our March 2025 members meeting will take place at Darlington Cricket Club at 7pm on Thursday 6th March 2025. Papers will be circulated to members in advance of the meeting.
This walk will meet at Phoenix Row near the farthest western point of the line. Walking up the Etherley incline, you will get a flavour of the rural nature of the Early S&DR and the scale of the earthworks required to provide a straight route to Shildon. The walk is 2.4 miles and involves some […]
The Stockton & Darlington Railway opened in 1825 and the world was never the same again. It is easy to get the impression that the people behind this pioneering phase of our history were all men. Where were the women? What were they doing? Can we find their names and write them back into history? […]