Friends of the Stockton & Darlington Railway

Timothy Hackworth (1786-1850) Timothy was born in Wylam in 1786, five years after his fellow railway pioneer George...

WOMEN are almost invisible in the history of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, such was the culture of the time....

Joseph Pease (1799-1872) was the third oldest child of Edward and Rachel Pease and started his S&DR career at the...

George Stephenson (1781-1848) was born in the village of Wylam in Northumberland and brought up in a tiny cottage...

Edward Pease (1767-1858) Edward Pease was born on the 31st May 1767 to Joseph Pease and Mary Richardson, prominent...

Thomas MacNay was the S&DR’s secretary 1849-69 and company director of South Durham Ironworks on the Blackwell...

THIS ARTICLE was originally published in The Globe, December 2020. It is about George Stephenson of the Stockton and...

THIS IS THE STORY of a man who worked on the Stockton and Darlington Railway during its first decade and a half of...