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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The engines hauled coal trains from Shildon known as the "cradle of the railway" to docks on the River Tees where it was offloaded on to ships. Coal would drop from special wagons with bottom ...

Around five thousand people visited the event at the National Railway Museum in Shildon which featured creative displays and gave visitors the opportunity to build their own masterpieces.