OUR commemorative “bookazine” celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway is to be launched in April with an illustrated talk in Hopetown, Darlington’s new railway visitor attraction.
The Echo’s Chris Lloyd will tell some of his favourite stories about the birth of the railway, starting up on Cockfield Fell and finishing on Stockton quayside, and featuring a dastardly derailing duke, a meeting in a kebab shop that changed the history, a pipe-smoker’s spark that lit Locomotion No 1, and the S&DR’s inaugural journey on September 27, 1825.
The talk is on Tuesday, April 8, at 10am, and tickets cost either £5 or for £10, you gain admission and a copy of the bookazine. Tea and coffee will also be available.
FULL DETAILS OF THE BOOKAZINE AND HOW TO ORDER HERE
Well over 1,000 copies of the Stockton & Darlington 200 bookazine – which is a cross between a book and a magazine – have already been ordered ahead of its general release next week, when it will sell for £9.95.
It has been produced in conjunction with LNER, and as well as telling how the ground-breaking railway came into existence, it lays out how the S&DR got the rest of the world on track.
The bookazine doubles as a programme for the S&DR200 events which are taking place throughout the rest of the year, and it includes a contribution from the Railway 200 organisation as the whole of the railway industry commemorates the bicentenary.
TO GET A £10 TICKET, CLICK HERE
TO BOOK A £5 TICKET, CLICK HERE
To book a ticket for the talk, follow the links above or please go to store.newsquest.co.uk and click on the “tickets” button. You can also order copies of the bookazine from the store. Details of where else it will be available will be released shortly.
