The Stockton & Darlington Railway multiculture Bill Dodgin

Bill Dodgin

North-West view of St Andrew Undershaft

The young Arthur pulls the sword from the stone to become King of England

followed by Sawbridge

The Stockton & Darlington Railway multiculture Bill DodginThe Stockton & Darlington Railway, 1825 (1900). Opened on 27 September, 1825, the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR) was the world's first public railway. It was built to link the collieries in West Durham and Darlington with the docks on River Tees at Stockton, Durham. At the opening of the railway, large crowds saw chief engineer George Stephenson at the controls of 'Locomotion', the locomotive built by Robert Stephenson & Co, as it pulled 36