SHILDON really was ... they had to push against the wheels when they thought they were going too fast. It must have been a hell of a rollercoaster ride. STREET RAILWAY: Wesley Crescent in Shildon ...

These are the words of high street shop owner Kelly Burdess, who has based Kelly's Cards & Gifts in her little pocket of County Durham, the railway town of Shildon, for the last 15 years.

More than 70,000 people have visited a County Durham railway museum to see the last ... National Rail Museum in Shildon. Train enthusiast Vincent Swift, who came from China, said it was a "once ...