The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens

Assembled from 27 blocks · 1 evidence · 26 related

1. Story
2. A public railway built primarily to move County Durham coal to navigable water, worked with a mixture of steam locomotives, horses and stationary engines. It proved that a locomotive railway could be built and financed as a common carrier, but it did not yet demonstrate that steam alone was the answer.
3. Knowledge
4. Coal
5. The British railway network
6. The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens
7. Connections
8. The British railway network
9. Coal
10. Puddling and rolling
11. The British canal network
12. Liverpool and Manchester Railway
13. The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens
14. The Rainhill trials settle the question of traction
15. The Great Exhibition
16. The organic economy and its ceiling
17. The Newcomen atmospheric engine
18. Coke smelting of iron
19. The British canal network
20. Industrial child labour
21. The first commercially successful steam engine begins pumping
22. The Bridgewater Canal opens from Worsley into Manchester
23. The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens
24. Women and young boys are barred from working underground
25. The main-line steam locomotive
26. Evidence
27. Supports the identity, builder and date of the locomotive that won the Rainhill trials, and by extension the decision of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway to adopt locomotive rather than cable haulage. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted; the collection record was not opened in this session and the surviving object's current display location is not asserted here.