Stockton and Darlington Railway Officially Opens

October 2, 2026 Railfanning.org Digital Library
In the Opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, a watercolour painted in the 1880s by John Dobbin, crowds watch the inaugural train cross the Skerne Bridge in Darlington.

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Sept. 27, 1825

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