In 1825 the Stockton & Darlington Railway opened to carry goods and passengers from the coal mines around Shildon, County Durham, via Darlington to the port of Stockton.
Passenger wagons were at first pulled by horse, but coal wagons were hauled by steam locomotives from the start, which is why the S&DR is cited as being the world's first public railway using such locomotives.
The influence of local Quaker families was such that the railway was nicknamed the Quaker Line.
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| Statue of railway pioneer Joseph Pease, who became the first Quaker to sit as an MP and who paid for the town's prominent clock tower |
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| View of the clock tower from my hotel room |
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