Railway History of New Shildon

An "extraordinarily informative and profusely illustrated" history of how a town built a railway, and a railway built a town (Midwest Book Review). On September 27, 1825, the first public railway steam train left New Shildon for Stockton-on-Tees, England. The driver was George Stephenson and the engine he was driving was the "Locomotion No.1." It set off from a settlement that consisted of just a ...