Railway history is set to be made as Hexham, a market town in North East England, will see its first-ever direct passenger ...

Around 36,000 people are expected to come to Derby to celebrate 200 years of the modern railway. | ITV News Central ...

Campaigners are celebrating after raising £300k to save what is believed to be the world's first railway station. Dating back to 1826, Heighington Station, in County Durham, was part of the Stockton ...

The Little Street Cavalcade was held in Shildon on Saturday (August 2) to mark 200 years since the town made history as the birthplace of the ...

The sculpture of Locomotion No 1 was installed today after nearly a year of designing, building and installing ...

BEING shown round the dilapidated former Locomotion No 1 pub, next to Heighington station, brought mixed emotions when I visited last year.

Tees Valley leaders, including Mayor Ben Houchen and council heads from Stockton and Darlington, have urged the Bank of England to commemorate ...

A train with hands-on interactive exhibits to celebrate 200 years of the railway has arrived in Sussex. Inspiration is a ...

The opening in 1825 of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first completed enterprise of the kind in history, first drew to that investment field the attention of the British public.

Regarded as the birth of the modern railway, the 26-mile (42km) journey between Shildon and Stockton via Darlington on 27 September 1825 transformed how the world traded, travelled and communicated.

A stylised sculpture of Locomotion No 1, built by a County Durham engineering firm, has been installed at Hopetown Darlington. The sculpture has been built by Hydram, which is based in Chilton. Ten ...