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Shildon to Stockton The Stockton & Darlington Railway
Roger Darsley and Dennis Lovett Middleton Press, Camelsdale Road, Haslemere, Surrey GU27 3RJ. Tel: 01730 813169. E-mail: sales@middletonpress.co.uk Web: www.middletonpress.co.uk
Description: Hardback, 240mm x 174mm, 96pp. ISBN: 9781910356791. Price: £18.95.
It might take you a while to gen up on the history of railways in the North East history ready for the Stockton & Darlington 200th anniversary celebrations in 2025 and this book is a good place to start.
It is certainly a most complex subject, and this useful Middleton guide is probably the wordiest the publisher has ever published – the images seem play second fiddle on our grand tour of the many lines that once threaded through parts of County Durham.
We are reminded that the S&D didn’t just run between the two towns, but was constructed to bring coal down to the River Tees
