A Stockton and Darlington Railway timetable for summer of 1836 , the drawing at the top shows the Magnet, a passenger steam engine built in 1835 by Timothy Hackworth at his Soho Works in Shildon. It cost £1,050.
THIS week I watched a TV programme called the Railways that Built Britain presented by Chris Tarrant.
It was stressed in this programme that the first "real" railway in Britain was the Manchester to Liverpool line which opened in 1830.
Of the North-East's local line, the Stockton to Darlington railway, there wasn’t so much as a mention.
Incredibly, it appears it has been airbrushed from history.
Just another example of a TV programme rewriting history.
Martin Birtle, Billingham
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