For the Stockton and Darlington Railway, however, Stephenson would use only wrought iron rails, notwithstanding the financial loss he would suffer from not using his own, patented design ( see below ).

The No. 1 engine, called Locomotion, for the Stockton & Darlington Railway

In 1821, a parliamentary bill was passed to allow the building of the Stockton and Darlington Railway ( S & DR ).

The railway was intended to connect various collieries situated near Bishop Auckland to the River Tees at Stockton, passing through Darlington on the way.

George Stephenson, with his work on the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, paved the way for the railway engineers who were to follow, such as his son Robert, his assistant Joseph Locke who went on to carry out much work on his own account and Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Stephenson's face is shown alongside an engraving of his Rocket steam engine and the Skerne Bridge on the Stockton to Darlington Railway.

* 1825: George Stephenson opens the Stockton and Darlington Railway the first steam train railway for passenger traffic in the world.

Steam-hauled public railways began with the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825.

In 1825 he built the Locomotion for the Stockton and Darlington Railway, north east England, which became the first public steam railway.

( Note: The only other passenger railway in the world at that time, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, had an average speed of only about.

* 1825 – The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the world's first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains.

Stephenson's Stockton and Darlington railway ( S & DR ) was built primarily to transport coal from several mines near Shildon to the port at Stockton-on-Tees.

* September 27, 1825 – The world's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opens in England.

Opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway

* September 27 – The world's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opens in England.

As used by George Stephenson on the Stockton & Darlington and Canterbury & Whitstable lines they weighed.

In 1821, a wagonway was proposed that would connect the mines at West Durham, Darlington and the River Tees at Stockton, George Stephenson successfully argued that horse drawn wagonways were obsolete and a steam powered railway could carry 50 times as much coal.

Shortly after the completion of the Stockton and Darlington railway in 1825, coal transport prices began falling rapidly.

The Stockton and Darlington had two inclined sections powered by cable.

After a short spell working in Leeds ( 1844-5 ) he was for four years one of the Resident Engineers on the Stockton and Darlington, leaving in 1849 to become manager and engineer of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway, one of the precursors of the North British Railway.

Lines he designed which were actually built included most notably four connecting lines all built by separate companies, which together allowed a direct connection between the West Cumbrian haematite mines and the area served by the Stockton and Darlington ( which was behind them ):

Timothy Hackworth ( 22 December 1786 – 7 July 1850 ) was a steam locomotive engineer who lived in Shildon, County Durham, England and was the first locomotive superintendent of the Stockton and Darlington Railway.

Hackworth only stayed until the end of that year, following which, he returned to Walbottle occupying his time with contract work until, upon the recommendation of George Stephenson, he was appointed on 13 May 1825 to the position of locomotive superintendent of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, a post he was to occupy until May 1840

Hackworth is believed to have been influential in the development of the first Stephenson locomotive intended for the Stockton and Darlington Railway during his time at the Forth Street factory.

* North East History: The Stockton and Darlington Railway

The experience on the Stockton and Darlington Railway was well-publicised, and a section of the Hetton colliery railway had been converted to cable haulage.

On 12 February 1821 at the George & Dragon Inn, the meeting was held that pressed for the third and successful attempt for a Bill to give permission to build the Stockton & Darlington Railway, the world's first public railway.

After his education at the Bruce Academy, an apprenticeship to Nicholas Wood, the manager of Killingworth Colliery, and a period at the University of Edinburgh where he met George Parker Bidder, Robert went to work with his father on his railway projects, the first being the Stockton and Darlington Railway.

The works, known as the Forth Street Works, were the first locomotive works in the world, and it was here that the locomotives for the Stockton and Darlington Railway were built.

The Stockton Poultry Plant opened as World War II ended, but closed around 1970.

In 1976, a slaughtering and processing plant was opened in Ottumwa, a dry sausage plant was opened in Knoxville, Iowa, and a grocery products canning facility was acquired in Stockton.

As the last bridge on the river before the sea, it was superseded by the a new toll bridge opened in Stockton in 1771.

In 1824, a year before the Stockton and Darlington line opened, Robert went off to South America for three years, to work as an engineer in the Colombian gold mines.

The Town House was built in 1735 and the first theatre in Stockton opened in 1766.

A hospital opened in Stockton in 1862 and a public library opened in 1877.

After doing some prospecting, Ghirardelli opened a general store in Stockton, California, offering supplies and confections to fellow miners in town.

The was built as a single track line an was worked by the Stockton and Darlington Railway from its inception, it opened for mineral trains on 8 April 1862, and for passengers on 9 June the same year.

He then worked again for George Leather as resident engineer on the Stockton and Hartlepool Railway and was appointed engineer to the railway when it opened in 1841.

The Holt Memorial Hall, dedicated to his contributions to the mechanization of agriculture, opened at The Haggin Museum in Stockton, California in 1976.

Edward Pease ( 1767 – 1858 ), a woollen manufacturer from Darlington, England, was the main promoter of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which opened in 1825.

The Locomotion Museum is sited near Timothy Hackworth's Soho Works on the Stockton and Darlington Railway ( opened on 27 September 1825 with a train hauled by Locomotion No 1 which took 2 hours to complete the 12 mile journey from Shildon to Darlington ).

In the realm of industry Edward Pease opened the Stockton and Darlington Railway in northern England in 1825.

In December 1830 a new railway line was opened on the Stockton and Darlington to Middlesbrough to get Pease's coal there.

Encouraged by the success of the Stockton and Darlington Railway which opened in 1825, in 1829 a group of local businessmen arranged for a survey for a line from Cowley Hill Colliery, north of St Helens, to Runcorn Gap on the River Mersey.

The Stockton and Darlington Railway of 1825 opened with mostly horse-drawn trains, with anyone able to operate their own trains on a turnpike basis.

Shortly after the Stockton and Darlington Railway in England opened ( 1825 ) he visited it and observed George Stephenson's Locomotion in operation.

< font face =" arial, helvetica, sans-serif " size =" 2 "> Stockton Arena opened its doors to the public on December 2, 2005.

The $ 22 million Banner Island Ballpark opened with a game on April 28, 2005, during which the Stockton Ports defeated the San Jose Giants 7-4 in front of a sellout crowd.

The first railway to pass through the area now occupied by the station was built by the Stockton and Darlington Railway, who opened their mineral branch from Albert Hill Junction on their main line to Croft-on-Tees on 27 October 1829.

Shildon was the terminus of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, when it opened in 1825.