STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON RAILWAY


Meaning of STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON RAILWAY in English

the world’s first railway on which passengers were carried on steam trains. It was built by George Stephenson in the 1820s between Stockton, a port on the River Tees in north-east England, and Darlington, an industrial town ten miles away.

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