Locomotion Number 1, the first steam engine to pull a passenger train on a public railway, was spotted at Wolsingham Station, Weardale, ...

Youngsters clamber over Locomotion No 1 at Bank Top station, Darlington, in January 1933 (Image: .) Darlington had been the permanent home of the engine for the previous 163 years. The exhibition ...

The exhibition runs from Friday, April 4 until Sunday, June 22. Locomotion No 1 on its pedestal at North Road station. It visited Chicago in 1876 and Paris in 1889, but returned to its pedestal ...

Locomotion No. 1 was the first steam locomotive to run on a public railway.This firing shovel was used on Locomotion No.1, the first steam locomotive to run on a public railway, at the opening of ...

The star of the extraordinary display were the plates that were fixed to Locomotion No 1 in 1889 as it became a globe-trotting superstar, hailed as the starting point of the passenger railway.

A Grade II listed statue of railway pioneer Robert Stephenson is to go on show at a museum. The bronze 8ft 10in (2.7m) statue ...

To commemorate the S&DR200 anniversary there's even a new £2 coin out which features George and Robert Stephenson's famous Locomotion No. 1: the first steam locomotive to pull a passenger ...

Following Saturday’s well received drone show which launched the eight-month long festival, Locomotion No 1 has returned to Darlington along with two replicas of the world’s earliest locomotives to ...

Locomotion railway museum in Shildon, County Durham, has announced its programme for the bicentenary year of the modern ...