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Free Guided Walk: Gaunless Bridges Walk

Free Guided Walk: Gaunless Bridges Walk

by Jonathan Ratcliffe | Feb 10, 2025

This is a ticketed event and requires the registration form completing for each person attending by pressing the book this event button and following the instructions on the form:

Free Guided Walk: Why the Railway came to Darlington (daytime walk)

by Jonathan Ratcliffe | Feb 10, 2025

Why the Railway came to Darlington (daytime walk) Darlington Town Centre to Hopetown Railway Visitor Attraction. 1.5 miles (2.5 km), 1 hour 30 minutes. Mostly on pavements. Maximum group size 12. No dogs (except guide dogs). Easy to Moderate. We will visit some of the...

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

by Jonathan Ratcliffe | Feb 10, 2025

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...

Free Guided Walk: Walk from Eaglescliffe Station to St. John’s Crossing Stockton

by Jonathan Ratcliffe | Feb 10, 2025

A linear Walk from Eaglescliffe Station to St John’s Crossing, Stockton via Preston Park This is a ticketed event and requires the registration form completing for each person attending by pressing the book this event button and following the instructions on the...

Allens West Station to Eaglescliffe Station Railway Walk

by Jonathan Ratcliffe | Feb 10, 2025

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...
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