What remains of the "first" steam powered passenger railway line?

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The Stockton-Darlington Railway wasn't the first time steam locomotives had been used to pull people, but it was the first time they had been used to pull passengers over any distance worth talking about. In 1825 that day came when a line running all the way from the coal pits in the hills around County Durham to the River Tees at Stockton was opened officially. This was an experiment, a practice, a great endeavour by local businessmen and engineers, such as the famous George Stephenson, who astounded crowds of onlookers with the introduction of 'Locomotion 1' halfway along the line, which began pulling people towards Darlington and then the docks at Stockton.
This was a day that would not only transform human transportation forever, but accelerate the industrial revolution to a blistering pace.
In this video I want to look at what remains of that line - not the bit still in use between the two towns, but the bit out in the coalfields. And I want to see how those early trailblazers tackled the rolling hills, with horses and stationary steam engines to create a true amalgamation of old-world and new-world technologies.
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@dawnmariondehaviland6922 10 месяцев назад

As a Stockton lass born and bred, I must say whoever had the bright idea of pulling down that work of Victorian art we locals called STOCKTON STATION took away the heart of the town, that station was a working museum itself and to think people would have traveled from afar to visit, I left 40 years back only to call back again 10 years ago to see nothing but a glorified bus stop I was shedding a tear as a spent my transporting days there, spotting the Scotsman in 68 and memories of that victorian carriage that stood on its platform now in york museum great video I know most of the areas you covered

@leokimvideo 11 месяцев назад

Just so sad the bridge is not there. Surely it's a national treasure being the first ever Iron Bridge.

@nicktrains2234 11 месяцев назад

It's not. The first iron bridge is in Telford, in a place named, fittingly enough, Ironbridge

@OldsVistaCruiser 11 месяцев назад

@@nicktrains2234- Ironic how UK place names are so common in Pennsylvania. The Reading Railroad had a station in Telford. On the way there on that line, it passed North Wales.

@deeznoots6241 11 месяцев назад

@@OldsVistaCruiserits not ironic, settlers from England named the towns they were founding after towns in England.

@condition1bsg756 11 месяцев назад

The remains of the Gaunless bridge are being reconstructed at Locomotion Shildon. The stone abutments seen in the video are planned to be reused and a new bridge deck put in for the S&DR multi-use path.

@flybobbie1449 11 месяцев назад

@@nicktrains2234 Iron Railway bridge, commentator said. Telford is first Iron bridge. Telford bridge was actually an advert of what could be done with iron.

@jetsons101 11 месяцев назад

Ollie, you get "over excited and over enthusiastic," never -- just kidding, that's one of the best parts of your channel. This was a great piece of Railroad History -- nothing beats vintage steam. The Skerne Bridge just goes to show if you do it right the first time, it will last. Thanks for your time, work and posting..... mike

@BeeHereNowuk 11 месяцев назад

Thanks Mike! Love a bit of vintage steam! Yes the Bridge is even better in real life than on video. It's great that it's still there just doing it's job, no fuss.

@jetsons101 11 месяцев назад

I bet if the builders/workers could see that the bridge is still standing and being used, they would be proud and amazed.......@@BeeHereNowuk

@cliveshergold9467 11 месяцев назад

@@BeeHereNowuk Actually, almost every picture of the Skerne Bridge on opening day is wrong, because they were painted 50 years after the event. The bridge embankments started to give way under the strain of the heavy trains, and had to be strengthened. The only known picture of it as originally built is this: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skerne_Bridge,_Darlington,_in_1825,_by_Revd._John_Skinner.jpg

@robertmyers5269 11 месяцев назад

It is amazing how quickly the transformation caused by steel wheels on steel rails occurred. 1825 the S&D started. 1829 the L&M - common carrier travel, the 'Rocket'. 1869 the Transcontinetal railway in the US and a person or goods could travel between the Atlantic and Pacific on a steam railway. This is the first time the Algorithm has brought me to your channel. I'm going to have to look up those L&M videos.

@gdutfulkbhh7537 11 месяцев назад

It rapidly made a big difference to human genetics, too.

@deeznoots6241 11 месяцев назад

Ehh, there were actually railways several centuries before, usually used at mines and with horses pulling carts along small sections of track. It was the steam engine that made railways really take off

@rockadoodoo 11 месяцев назад

I share your enthusiasm unabashedly for railroading history. I live in Colorado, USA, and enjoy the more recent history railroading has to offer here. My goal is to take an extended journey to England for the main purpose of experiencing first hand the great railroading offered there. I’ll be sure to visit the Stockton-Darlington railway, thanks to your absolutely fabulous video.

@vernongoodey5096 9 месяцев назад

From UK been to Colorado several times love the Cumbres and Toltec, the Engineer for the Denver & Rio grand got the idea for the narrow gauge system was after he spent his honeymoon at the Ffestiniog railway in Wales, bet his new wife was impressed

@vernongoodey5096 9 месяцев назад

Oops engineer was Palmer

@ianhawkins4132 11 месяцев назад

Closer to completion than HS2 will ever get.

@mikeschillinger4427 11 месяцев назад

😂

@vernongoodey5096 9 месяцев назад

Yes I worked for the railways for 19 years and have to say we should have copied the Indian Railways idea! The whole reasoning for HS2 was to alleviate the congestion on the West Coast mainline (old LMS Route). So politicians went straight for the build an extra costly passenger railway. What India has done successfully is build not one but two dedicated freight lines less expense and sorting out the overcrowding problems? Ming you in 6 years when the rail network grinds to a halt and the airlines are overbooked and the motorways are packed the BBC and all the other idiots will be the first to complain why didn’t we finish HS2 (imagine poor old Brunel trying to build the GWR these days?)

@heroj6322 8 месяцев назад

Well obviously, it's already been built

@ferretscoutcar 8 месяцев назад

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤

@HTOP1982 8 месяцев назад

HS0.2

@eugenegilleno9344 11 месяцев назад

The first passenger Railway Station is at Heighington on the line, dating from 1827....it still survives albeit as an abandoned public house, but there are plans to restore it. 😁......you missed that one Ollie !

@ryanparker4996 11 месяцев назад

He missed the entire Locomotion museum in Shildon too, which is right next to spot of the line where Locomotion first departed with the first train hooked up to it

@grahamstubbs4962 11 месяцев назад

Fabulous piece of work. The effort that went into this production is unbelievable. Subscribed.

@andzzz2 11 месяцев назад

He's a real gem.

@webrarian 11 месяцев назад

Beamish Museum has a working replica of 'Puffing Billy' (c.1814) which travels a short distance at about five miles an hour. I thought it was an excellent way to understand how "speed" must have felt to early rail passengers. To me, it felt steady and not that slow.

@ArthurD 11 месяцев назад

*1914

@webrarian 11 месяцев назад

@@ArthurD No. 1814.

@davidty2006 11 месяцев назад

Technically it was used to moving alot of heavy coal wagons not so much passengers. Also back in those days alternative was walking or horse and cart.

@rocktapperrobin9372 11 месяцев назад

It would be the amount it could move at one time that would count. A stagecoach would be much faster.

@robtyman4281 11 месяцев назад

From a country that invented the railways, and subsequently sold the concept of them to the rest of the world.........to a country that can no longer build new railway lines - is a monumental decline. My, how far we've fallen as a country. Tragic.

@ArmstA79 11 месяцев назад

Thanks Ollie, great video. My wife works up the road from Phoenix Row, and I had no idea of its particular importance. I travel all over the North East with work and have sat out the 'station' building in Stockton so many times waiting for the traffic lights to change! I'll look upon it with renewed interest next time 😊

@BeeHereNowuk 11 месяцев назад

Aw amazing! Glad you found it useful 🙂

@andydunn5673 9 месяцев назад

Well done, great research and little. I knew most of this but thanks for putting i together.

@dcbrit2003 9 месяцев назад

I think this is your finest mini-documentary to date and it shows in the fact that only a short time after this was published it is already one of your most popular videos

@BeeHereNowuk 9 месяцев назад

Thanks very much, that's a top class comment right there 😀

@organlover1968 11 месяцев назад

What a great video. I was born and grew up in Etherley and, as kids, we used to play on the old track bed next to Pheonix Row. Also walked the track through Greenfields and Brusselton to Shildon many times. Thanks for such a well produced film.

@ffrancrogowski2192 11 месяцев назад

Truly great research gone into your program here Ollie. The maps and the photographs plus finding parts of this earliest system have made this very enjoyable, indeed. Many thanks for this production.

@TheUKNutter 11 месяцев назад

This is my hometown. I haven’t seen this place in forever.

@sparkyprojects 11 месяцев назад

@6:35 There wouldn't be wooden sleepers, the rail chairs were directly bolted to the stones, like @11:34

@willw1974 11 месяцев назад

I love the way you embrace the subject and have a real passion for the history. Your videos are great and informative about bygone times.

@BeeHereNowuk 11 месяцев назад

So nice of you. Glad you like them!

@stephennesbitt6059 11 месяцев назад

Excellent video.Again coming from County Durham,its was amazing to hear the story and see some of the remains of the railway route!

@BeeHereNowuk 11 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it! :)

@TelemachusS1 8 месяцев назад

I read the title and you are wrong

@terrier_productions 10 месяцев назад

the original Locomotion No 1 is preserved at Shildon and it has been confirmed that she (or most likely her replica) will be restored back to working order in time of the Bicentennial of the S&D

@BillC-ch7iz 11 месяцев назад

Interesting video, although you missed an opportunity to explain why the original trackway used separate stone "sleepers" rather than full width wood as is used today. This was done because the original rail wagons were pulled by a horse, and the separate sleepers gave the horse a smooth surface to walk on. In addition, since standard coal wagons were used, they did not have flanged wheels, so the first trackway incorporated an angle shaped rail. The original rail spacing was 4 feet 8 inches because of using existing coal wagons, which were sized (similar to Roman chariots) to accommodate two horses side by side. Ultimately, the 4 feet 8 inch spacing became 4 feet 8- and one-half inches, the "standard" rail gauge used today.

@Navalator 10 месяцев назад

Now this "standard gauge" information is a real find. My family has been in the U.S. railroad business since its inception and we were always told that the standard gauge was patterned after the chariot ruts in ancient Pompeii.

@christhompson2126 9 месяцев назад

Please also see footnote on track gauge on p.81 of Tomlinson's North Eastern Railway (1967 reprint)

@Bonifazius743 10 месяцев назад

My granddad joined the North Eastern Railway as an apprentice fireman in 1909 at Newport Shed. In 1928 he became a locomotive driver and moved to Saltburn Shed, where he stayed until retiring in 1961, having made the change from steam to diesel. He must have known the track to Darlington-Stockton like the back of his hand.

@alandargie9358 11 месяцев назад

Great video, thanks! I was raised in Stockton-on-Tees and remember having a project to do at school for the. 150th anniversary in 1975. I just went to the museum (in the original ticket office on the right of the block you filmed) and copied down all the writing in the museum! Probably got a really crap mark. By the way I understand the reason the building wasn't used or developed as some sort of souvenir or continued as a museum was that it is now used as a charitable home for blokes.

@mikebrown3772 11 месяцев назад

The iron trusses of the Gaunless Bridge were kept and are to displayed at Shildon, also I think a new bridge is to be installed between the historic abutments as part of a cycle way.

@ApocalypseofMichael 8 месяцев назад

This is fascinating! I live in Forest Hall about a five minute walk from the old pit in Killingworth and about five minutes walk from "The George Stephenson museum" which was his house where he lived and worked on "The rocket" We still have the old coal train tracks as public spaces and walkways called "Wagon ways" They're a beauty to be in. This line you're walking looks beautiful to walk. Great to know you can walk it! Thanks! Continued success!

@BeeHereNowuk 8 месяцев назад

Thanks so much, that's so nice to hear 😊

@adriannorthcott902 11 месяцев назад

Another excellent video Ollie some interesting facts and shots along the line I have not seen before. Keep these railway history videos coming .

@RingwayManchester 11 месяцев назад

Another quality production as always mate.

@BeeHereNowuk 11 месяцев назад

Much appreciated amigo

@thestocktonflyer4059 8 месяцев назад

I'm a proud Stockton lad . An amazing town with amazing people. And full of history. Great video my friend. Thank you 😊

@rockadoodoo 11 месяцев назад

I love that photo of old 54. The engineer and fireman (shoveling coal) are very dandy in their top hats and tails! And all of those folks in the wagons appear to be amidst absolute chaos. How fun!

@mrkeoghoe 10 месяцев назад

Interesting that the fish bellied rail sections are evident in your video. There were so many parallels occurring outside of Plymouth. The Plymouth Dartmoor Railway that was meant to bring products like granite from Dartmoor and lime up onto the moor to neutalise the acid soils. That was between 1812 to 1820. It was horse drawn and steam trains did not appear some 30 years later on a parallel purpose built modern railway track. Bearing in mind, there were arguments as to whether the standard gauge or the wider GWR guage should be the standard. Thanks for the detailed video.

@maestromanification 11 месяцев назад

Great video. You have found a very rare picture of the Tees Bridge when you said about it being extended to Middlesbrough. The picture shows the Bridge when it was electrified. Not well known that two short parts of the S&D were electrified between 1915 and 1935 There are 2 sections of the original line abandoned between Darlington S&D crossing and the section from eaglesciffe 4to bowesfield which was a few hundred yards to the east of the present line Cheers Russ

@BeeHereNowuk 11 месяцев назад

I did not know that, so thank you!

@ryanparker4996 11 месяцев назад

@@BeeHereNowukyes the frontmost tree covered strip of land at the front of Preston Park is the original alignment, they moved it away from the Manor house grounds

@pras12100 11 месяцев назад

Excellent video but I have a few little niggles about the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR) being portrayed as a great innovator. The first public passenger railway was the Swansea & Mumbles Railway of 1807. Trains were pulled by horses but, as the video says at 19:40, passenger traffic on the S&DR was also pulled by horses. The S&DR inaugural train was the exception and not the rule. I consider Richard Trevithick's "Catch Me Who Can" show of 1808 as more like a fairground attraction than a working railway. It did, however, haul passengers around a loop using a steam engine. The first railway to use steam locomotives (other than as experiments) was the Middleton Railway in 1812. As I see it, the S&DR was the next step in an evolution. It was longer than most of the railways that preceded it and it had some smaller innovations (eg first iron railway bridge). Calling it the "first steam powered passenger line" I think is a bit of a stretch.

@highpath4776 11 месяцев назад

Given the winding engines were also powered by steam (as the winding ones for some of the inclines at Middleton were when the locomotives were indisposed/prior), I think the title is correct. Strictly Middleton was a private railway (unlike the surrey iron railway - which was public line but not mechanically hauled nor passenger) when created and although passengers may have been unofficially transported in coal trucks I think we have to recognise that the haulage of dedicated and improvised carriages and trains of passengers at Stockton and Darlington gives it a first. The presenter queries the sale of tickets etc, presumably for persons without their own carriage at Stockton. I would imagine they would be few in number as travel to Darlington/Shildon was the limit and most people would not have money, or inclination, to make the trip. Was there also the problem of passenger carriages really slowing done / blocking the trains of the (more profitable?) coal and other goods trains ?

@MarceloBenoit-trenes 11 месяцев назад

The first steam operated passenger raiway was Canterbury-Withstable, but it had an incline with fixed steam engines too. It was opened in May 1830.

@greenbob69 8 месяцев назад

Born and bred in Stockton and it's the one thing we have. We're going to hold on to it as best we can however contrived it may be!

@CattusHorribibis 4 месяца назад

FFS, the first time a steam locomotive was used to pull a passenger train from one town to another along iron railway lines was on 27 Sep 1825 when 'Locomotion' made the first journey from Darlo to Stockton (in 3 hours 7 minutes) on the Stockton & Darlington railway.

@pras12100 4 месяца назад

@@CattusHorribibis You said "from Darlo to Stockton". The first train went from Shildon (which at that time was only a village) to Stockton. The route skirted around Darlington but did not go in. I would say it went from a village to a town. Besides, if you are just including single trips then Richard Trevithick's "Pen-y-Darren" hauled a train from Penydarren (Merthyr Tydfil) to Abercynon on 21st February 1804. In the wagons were "10 tons of Iron and 70 men". It was painfully slow but it got there in the end.

@lauriecooper8194 11 месяцев назад

Superb Ollie, love your stuff. The old carriage shed near Darlington North Road station was where, only a few years ago, 60163 Tornado, the first new build British mainline steam locomotive since 1960 was built.

@tomwatson9710 4 месяца назад

Fascinating history that then spanned the whole world, something to be proud of 👍🇬🇧

@philipnoble1429 11 месяцев назад

Fascinating video. I have had intentions to visit Stockton and Darlington for years thinking that the first train ran from one of those places. Now know it's not quite as simple as that! Would love to visit those places you featured in the video. To stand on a spot so important in terms of world history yet ignored by most people!

@Navalator 10 месяцев назад

Ignoring (and demolishing) history is a typical human frailty. Governments rather spend money on wars. Just think of the massive historical reconstruction that could be realized with just 20% of the money spent on armaments.

@kwd3109 11 месяцев назад

Really enjoyed your video. I love Great Britain, it seems everywhere you look there's history to be discovered. Best wishes from the US.

@davidfeechan4387 11 месяцев назад

Although the S and D was the frist line to carry passengers, the south hetton line was the first to use only steam power, also designed by Stephenson in 1822

@Austin40424 8 месяцев назад

A superb,clear and concise documentary. Very professional and enjoyable. Makes me want to go there. Should be on mainstream TV. Thankyou.

@BeeHereNowuk 8 месяцев назад

Wow, thank you!

@nmp369 8 месяцев назад

I love history and found this video very informative and enjoyable to watch. Thank you for producing this video! Regards, Nic

@carloshortuvia5988 9 месяцев назад

Absolutely superb documentary. Merry Christmas from Queretaro, Mexico.

@LoneSheWolf09 11 месяцев назад

There’s a rail museum called Locomotion in Shildon. Is the museum named after the first locomotion train? Fantastic video can I just say! It’s blown me away on how trains came to be from 1825. Im really impressed with the information and the story behind on how trains first came to be. Keep up the good work :).

@joline2730 11 месяцев назад

Daniel: Yes it is - have you visited the Locomotion Museum? It's fascinating - and FREE ‼️

@LoneSheWolf09 11 месяцев назад

@@joline2730 yeah been quite a few times wanted to see what had happened to the 125 prototype as it was at ruddington few years ago but didn’t know where it ended up then found out by chance visiting shildon locomotion it was there. So been few times and enjoyed it. Was wondering if the museum was named after the first locomotion train named in the video that’s all.

@iankemp1131 10 месяцев назад

@@LoneSheWolf09 Yes it is, since it is directly on the route that the engine Locomotion ran on, and where the 1925 and 1975 anniversary celebrations took place. Hopefully something similar is planned for the bicentenary in 2025!

@LoneSheWolf09 10 месяцев назад

@@iankemp1131 Thankyou for the info & sounds exciting! :)

@andersholt4653 11 месяцев назад

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪.

@fredleong3986 8 месяцев назад

Great history marvellously presented . Thank you Ollie

@Gus4r4po 9 месяцев назад

With these videos I learn a lot and I get used to understanding English accent. Thank you very much for your videos!!!

@jackd8602 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing this most interesting tale. Great detail

@browni.1893 6 месяцев назад

Both my parents were born in a village that the original Stockton to Darlington railway ran through and I walked the line before it was ripped up and completely turned into a walking track. I've lived in Australia since 1968 but I was there twice, the last time being around 1980 and I saw the Rocket replica on Darlington station, probably no longer there. It's a shame to see what they've done to an iconic moment in history.

@MrDodgedollar 4 месяца назад

I Find it Incredible that the UK does not restore at least part of the line and have some sort of working train as a tourist attraction and a living tribute to a transport breakthrough that literally changed time and ushered in the modern world. It is that significant!!

@wirksworthsrailway 8 месяцев назад

A cracking video and I much appreciate your enthusiasm and passion for the subject. You're a man after my own heart!

@wrichard11 11 месяцев назад

Oh what a great video! I have lived all along the S&DR, can remember locomotion 1 when it lived in Darlington Bank top station. I was taken as a boy to the 150 celebration and I can let you know that the Stockton ticket office looks much better now than it did then. Brusselton incline is very near me in the Gaunless Valley. Hope you enjoyed making this vid as I enjoyed watching it. I hate to be parochial but it's good sometimes to see very familiar places. Many thanks Darren

@wrichard11 11 месяцев назад

I mean Ollie. Sorry

@BeeHereNowuk 11 месяцев назад

Thanks so much! Yeah I loved making this video. Fantastic part of the world!

@SuperMorgan1980 11 месяцев назад

More great work Ollie, keep it up. Always fascinating

@peterkilvert2712 9 месяцев назад

Great story and great presentation. Thank you.

@AlisonFort 11 месяцев назад

The Gaunless bridge appears to be in the car park of the National Railway Museum at York. Perhaps it is time it was returned…

@paulbennett772 7 месяцев назад

Greetings from Darlington! I was born & raised here, and lived in 3 houses within sight of the line from North Road to Bank Top, including within sight of the oldest bridge. Btw, BHN is/was a Darlington registration!

@BeeHereNowuk 7 месяцев назад

Very cool! Thanks for watching. 😊

@TheFlyingBusman 10 месяцев назад

I love this kind of history. Pease & Partners we’re responsible for the sinking of the local colliery near my old home town and I have a rainwater grate cast in one of Pease’ foundries by our front door.

@christophernewman5027 11 месяцев назад

Just watched this. Fantastic! I'm passionate about industrial archeology but especially the railways. Subbed. 😊

@andrewwoodgate3769 11 месяцев назад

As ever, a really well-researched and well-presented video

@ianfox6106 9 месяцев назад

Hello from Australia. One of the most popular street names in Australia is Railway Terrace, as just about every town had one in front of its Railway station, and one of the most popular pub names is the Railway Hotel, as just about every town had one to provide a bar to Railway workers and overnight accommodation to Railway travellers. It was nice to see a video showing the originals.

@brynvjones6679 11 месяцев назад

Lovely brass band sounds at start and finish. Superb bookends.

@timothydigiuseppe1753 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for this engaging production. I learned a lot I didn't know. Appreciated as well is the information contained in the comments your video generated.

@TroyTempest0 11 месяцев назад

Great vid Ollie - really enjoyed every minute. Now I know where to be in a couple o' years!

@timphillips9954 11 месяцев назад

The first steam service in the world was just outside of Pontypridd in Wales. in real coal country. What is the first train in the world? 1804 - First steam locomotive railway using a locomotive called the Penydarren or Pen-y-Darren was built by Richard Trevithick. It was used to haul iron from Merthyr Tydfil to Abercynon, Wales. The first train carried a load of 10 tons of iron. On one occasion it successfully hauled 25 tons.

@mikecawood 13 дней назад

I remember exploring the Gaunless bridge location and the Brusselton Incline in the late 1960s. We went in my late Aunt's car.

@DOCTORDROTT 11 месяцев назад

Passengers were carried 20 years earlier in Merthyr, Penydarren railway 1804

@jtr789310 11 месяцев назад

Wow fantastic history Thanks you did a great job. Just amazing how much it change history as we know to day.

@rossendalecollieries7995 11 месяцев назад

really enjoyed that. those stone sleepers were amazing

@LanielPhoto 9 месяцев назад

Thank you, Informative, interesting and well done.

@PhilWaud 11 месяцев назад

Fantastic video - again! You manage to find really interesting topics and present your research in a great way. Keep em coming!

@BeeHereNowuk 11 месяцев назад

Thank you very much! Very kind of you

@ericranasinghe7851 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for the documentary.It is very interesting.

@simonmears818 11 месяцев назад

Thanks Ollie!, excellent video, County Durham and the North East has lots of Industrial Archaeology, if you know where to look......👍

@vincentneale2620 8 месяцев назад

The very first steam locomotive hauled train was in 1804 by Richard Trevethick in Merthyr Tydfil Part of the original track is still there today

@andykopgod 7 месяцев назад

Really enjoyed this, good stuff 👍

@SimonGlanvilleOrganist 6 месяцев назад

This wasn’t actually the first railway to carry passengers though as in 1804 in Penydaren in Wales, Richard Trevithick’s locomotive Black Billy pulled something like 12 passengers as well as 70 tons of iron. A replica of this locomotive still runs today. Also, Trevithick had produced Catch Me In Who Can in 1808 which ran at a maximum speed of 12mph and also carried passengers. George Stephenson merely developed Trevithick’s idea and the Stockton and Darlington railway was the first railway to carry passengers regularly as well as freight.

@aleem333 10 месяцев назад

Excellent presentation thank you

@jaywalker1233 10 месяцев назад

This is not, of course, the first steam powered railway line. The first image of a steam locomotive pulling a train was on a commercially operated railway line and was painted in 1812 - during the Napoleonic Wars and more than a decade earlier. Maybe you’ve covered this but I can dig out the details of the image if you wish.

@maverickcruise99 11 месяцев назад

Yes, a railway with railway stations, not train stations , is now so commonly incorrectly used. Apologies, my father proudly worked with the BTP British Transport Police at initially : The original SnowHill, which was beautiful indeed followed by New Street, the modified hell of poured concrete, and lastly - Birmingham International. Railway Station. Enjoyed your presentation and agreed a pity more of this history has not been preserved. British Transport also took on part of the canal system, which is reflected in the BTP cap badge. Kind regards.

@araptorofnote5938 11 месяцев назад

Whilst standing on one of the four platforms at my local station I was approached by two confused teenagers who needed to know if they were on the right platform for the London train. But they had no idea how to frame the question. One of them pointed at the ground and asked “is this the train station that goes to London”? I was tempted to just say yes, but I told them they needed to be on platform 2 which was opposite.

@OldsVistaCruiser 11 месяцев назад

"Train stations" is perfectly acceptable US practice. We call railways "railroads" and train drivers "engineers." We are indeed 2 nations separated by a common language, but we are the best of friends today!

@allangibson8494 11 месяцев назад

The Stockton and Darlington wouldn’t have used wooden sleepers. Stone foundations were more common for the first twenty years of steam railways with cast iron rails.

@hans2406 9 месяцев назад

I was there in 1975, from Holland, just to see the steam cavalcade.

@thomasdieckmann5711 11 месяцев назад

Danke! Thanks for that wonderful trip into the past. I was not aware of how much still exists :-)

@BeeHereNowuk 11 месяцев назад

Thank you so much Thomas, that's so kind of you! Glad you found the video useful and entertaining. Vielen Dank!

@abandonedrailwaya2470 10 месяцев назад

An excellent and informative exploration of this historic railway. Thank you for sharing your adventure. Subscribed🙂👍

@davemc9268 11 месяцев назад

There used to be a section of the track on display outside of the NRM in York, with the iron track mounted on the stone sleeper blocks.

@ClockworksOfGL 11 месяцев назад

Amazing when you consider this was built less than a decade after Waterloo. We tend to think of railroads as “Victorian” technology, but it’s much much older.

@stephenkatthagen8604 9 месяцев назад

History like this needs to be preserved.

@terryansell6641 11 месяцев назад

Thank you from New Zealand this was so interesting

@Northernwild 11 месяцев назад

Lots of the original stone rail beds were reused for Saltburn promenade. You can still see the holes in the stones.

@dougmungoven4315 10 месяцев назад

keep up the great historical work.

@paulcomptonpdphotography 11 месяцев назад

Thats amazing well done.. to still see them stone in the ground wow

@normanriggs848 10 месяцев назад

Very interesting. Thank you!

@sawyerhja 11 месяцев назад

Very professional and entertaining video

@allanspence1347 10 месяцев назад

Excellent. Thank you.

@georgepayne3231 10 месяцев назад

I particularly like the music at the beginning of the piece. I have played that arrangement of Ashgrove done by a brass banding friend Nigel Horn. I must have missed the Nigel's music credit line,

@adriaanboogaard8571 11 месяцев назад

Fantastic video. I'm always looking at the land for old grade and have found old roads railway and mines. I've got a eye out ever time I go on a road trip some time's I've been through about a dozen times and I spot something else. It's best when some one else drive's so I can put my full attention on the landscape. I say stop back up a lot then we get out and it always pays off.

@OldsVistaCruiser 11 месяцев назад

You can find many abandoned railway grades here in Pennsylvania. One was even used decades later to construct the Turnpike!

@kenberry6757 10 месяцев назад

Extremely enjoyable video, and nicely put together.

@BeeHereNowuk 10 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@bobhoye5951 11 месяцев назад

Very good research and presentation. A Great Financial Bubble climaxed in May-June 1825. When railroad stocks were the hot sector. Other than Stockton, these rail stocks were unreal in the sense that they were based upon the "right" to build a RR from A to B. Something similar occurred in the 1770s when the new game was in Canal Stocks. Many of which were just the rights to build from A to B. On our Bubble, China has been frantically building roads and Rail Roads from, well, A to B.

@geoffreycodnett6570 11 месяцев назад

Rights didn't exist until a Private Parliamentary Bill had been passed and railway mania took off well after 1825.

@cappuccinodriverno1 11 месяцев назад

Absolutely superb . Many thanks

@bouffon1 11 месяцев назад

My dad (born in Stockton 1911) remembered being present at the hundredth anniversary in 1925. "With a lovely little blond on his arm"... Maybe that event would be worth looking into...

@rocktapperrobin9372 11 месяцев назад

Love the horse replacement service! Great video, just found yr channel. Subscribed.

@anthonyhunt701 11 месяцев назад

Wonderful documentary my friend❤🚂

@BeeHereNowuk 11 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@LancashireLass 11 месяцев назад

Thanks Ollie. Fascinating stuff as always.

@BeeHereNowuk 11 месяцев назад

My pleasure! Thank you for watching it :)

@MassiveChetBakerFan 11 месяцев назад

Great video!

@paulafranceschi 11 месяцев назад

Well done. Thanks.

@lkrnpk 9 месяцев назад

at the head of it all was an engine called ''Locomotion-1'' and a very young Kylie Minogue was singing ''so come on, come on, do the locomotion with me''