Latest News
From the Friends of the S&DR
Latest News
Welcome to the latest news from the Friends of the S&DR.
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...
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...
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...
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...
More S&DR structures are protected.
PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) ACT 1990 BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST Dene Beck Culvert, sited at NZ 27514 20097 where the Dene Beck passes below the...
Book Launch 4th March 2023 at the Railway Institute
Consultation on scheduling of earthwork remains of the S&DR at Preston Park
Stockton & Darlington Railway: earthworks of the 1825 main line and associated features within Preston Park. Strip of land extending for 1km along Yarm Road, Preston-on-Tees forming the western...
Friends of the NRM (NE Branch) – Talks for 2023
The Friends of the NRM (NE Branch) arranges talks on the last Saturday of each month at Locomotion in the Sunday School Building, DL4 1PQ at 10.30am. The talks are free; tea and coffee available. ...
An update on filming by Lonely Tower Film and Media
Our friends at Lonely Tower have published an update on filming so far. Much of this will be cleverly sewn together to make an amazing film or series of films about the S&DR and the development of...
S&DR Heritage festival events
Details of this year's S&DR HAZ/Heritage Open Days ‘festival’ can be found here: 2022 S&DR Heritage Festival HAZ and HoDs