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Shildon marks 200 years of rail innovation

A County Durham town has marked the bicentenary of the birth of the modern railway with commemorative plaques.
The two commemorative plaques celebrating George Stephenson and the birth of the modern railway are unveiled in Shildon

A County Durham town has marked the bicentenary of the birth of the modern railway with commemorative plaques.


Durham County Council unveiled the two plaques at a new public space in Shildon, celebrating George Stephenson, the ‘Father of the Railways,’ and the location where passengers boarded Locomotion No. 1 for the world’s first passenger journey on the Stockton and Darlington Railway on 27 September 1825. 


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