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In September 1825 a public railway opened with a passenger carriage being pulled by a steam locomotive: The Stockton & Darlington Railway.
In this episode I look at what we know about the S&DR, which some authorities consider the first railway.
Show notes
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Research and Reading List
These are some of the books and websites I used for research for this episode. Some are free resources on the internet, some you can buy for yourself … if you do fancy any of them, then buying them through these links is a great way to support the show at no extra cost to you *.
A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Vol. 4 The North-east – K. Hoole, 1974
https://www.sdr1825.org.uk – A great website run by the Friends of the Stockton & Darlington Railway
The diaries of Edward Pease: the father of English railways – edited by Alfred Pease, 1907
The origins of railway enterprise: the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1821-1863 – Maurice Kirby, 2010
Timothy Hackworth and the locomotive – Robert Young, 1923
Images
William Jessop (1746 – 1814)
This Episode’s Trivia Question
Apart from some of Trevithick’s experiments, all of the working engines we’ve covered until now have had vertical cylinders – what was the first locomotive to have inclined cylinders?
Lancashire Witch built in 1828 by Robert Stephenson and Company and used on the Bolton and Leigh Railway.
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