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  • Allens West Station to Eaglescliffe Station Railway Walk

    Allen's West Station Eaglescliffe

    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.

    Free
  • First Miles of the S&DR

    Outside the Former Methodist Chapel, Phoenix Row Phoenix Row, Witton Park, United Kingdom

    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 […]

    Free
  • Free Talk: The Quaker Dominance on the S&DR & the Mines & Villages of County Durham

    Shildon Railway Institute Shildon, United Kingdom

    It's part of the significance of the S&DR to understand how it built a region. Our line, the S&DR, would never have existed as we know it without Tyneside engineering OR the business skill of Quakers. Their investment was existential to the 1825 line and to the 1830 Middlesbrough Estate, but then continued full speed […]

    Free