The first walk covers Shildon ... as they thought that giant kettle on wheels would explode and kill them all. The Mason's may even be the world's first railway station. Railway tickets were ...

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.

A museum's latest exhibition is celebrating the history of one of the world's first railway towns. New Hall at the Locomotion museum in Shildon, County Durham, has opened to showcase the important ...

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 ...