Youngsters clamber over Locomotion No 1 at Bank Top station, Darlington, in January 1933 (Image: .) Darlington had been the permanent home of the engine for the previous 163 years. The exhibition ...

Locomotion No.1 was built by Robert Stephenson and Company, a Newcastle-based firm named after the son of "father of the railways" George Stephenson The first steam locomotive to haul a passenger ...