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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