Today, Whitely lives and works in Ely where the depot continues to operate. But he still remembers when he first laid eyes on a steam locomotive train as a child. “I could tell you the date that I got ...
The Stockton & Darlington Railway’s inaugural journey in 1825 revolutionised the way people and goods moved. Locomotion No. 1’s journey from Shildon to Stockton was the first time a steam locomotive ...