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Locomotion No 1, the first engine to haul passengers by steam on a public railway, used to stand in Darlington Bank Top railway station as a monument to Edward Pease and the Stockton and Darlington Railway, but was later moved to North Road station, and again to the National Railway Museum branch in Shildon, County Durham, the former operating ...
Joseph Pease. Joseph Pease (22 June 1799 – 8 February 1872) was a British proponent and supporter of the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company, one of first public railway systems in the world, and was the first Quaker permitted to take his seat in Parliament.
The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was a railway company that operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863.The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, [1] its first line connected collieries near Shildon with Darlington and Stockton in County Durham, and was officially opened on 27 September 1825.
Goods Shed, Darlington North Road, 1839-40 John Harris (16 July 1812 - 20 July 1869) was a railway engineer who worked on the Stockton and Darlington Railway from 1836 to 1847. Personal life
He found employment with the Stockton and Darlington Railway. This was merged with the North Eastern Railway in 1863. He was appointed ARIBA on 16 December 1867, and FRIBA on 2 May 1870. He was the Architect to the Darlington section of the North Eastern Railway until 1877. He died on 2 March 1912.
Thomas Richardson, a bill broker and Quaker from Stamford Hill, London, was the cousin of Edward Pease. [2] Pease proposed the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR) in 1818, and Richardson invested in the scheme, owning fifty £100 shares by 1823. [3]
Bill Crawford; Personal information; Full name: William Alfred Crawford: Date of birth 8 May 1872Place of birth: Darlington, England: Date of death: 1955 (aged 82–83) Position(s)
During the First World War, he served as a gunner with the 151st (Darlington) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. [9] [10] He married Florence Bradley, the daughter of a local florist, in a Bishop Auckland Presbyterian church in 1914; [11] a daughter, Winifred, was born the following year. [12] Healey died in Darlington in late 1974. [1] [2]