Railway History of New Shildon, George Turner Smith

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On the 27th September 1825, the first public railway steam train left New Shildon for Stockton-on-Tees. The driver was George Stephenson and the engine he was driving was the ''Locomotion No.1''. It set off from a settlement which would become New Shildon. At the time it consisted of just a set of rails and four houses, none of which had been there less than a year before. The four houses became a town with a five-figure population; a town that owed its existence to the railway that made its home there - the ''Stockton and Darlington''(S&DR). Some of the earliest and greatest railway pioneers worked there, including George and his son Robert, the Hackworth brothers, Timothy and Thomas, and the engineer William Bouch. Their story is part of New Shildon''s story. The locomotive works, created to build and maintain steam locomotives, morphed into the world''s most innovative works whose demise had more to do with politics than productivity. This book covers Shildon''s years between 1820 and today, including the