TWO items relating to the historic Stockton and Darlington Railway will be on sale at a major book fair this weekend.
Collector Richard Hodgson, of Kirklevington, south of Stockton, will sell the items at Durham Book Fair, which will be held from 10am to 4pm on Saturday.
They are a list of penalties from the Stockton and Darlington railway of July 11, 1826, and a framed Parliamentary docket, watermarked 1818, with a coloured map showing the line’s proposed route.
The list of penalties was published in the first year of the railway’s operation.
Waggon owners had to ensure their rolling stock was identified or could be fined up to £5. An axle bearing failure through lack of grease brought a £1 fine.
The item is expected to sell for about £750.
The docket, titled Proposed rail-road, from the collieries in the western part of the County of Durham, by Darlington, to Stockton-upon-Tees; and communicating by branches, with Yarm and the North-Riding of Yorkshire, is expected to bring about £1,200.
The fair will be held in County Hall, with 42 exhibitors. Entry is £1.
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