The Whistle Stop

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This bespoke touring library exhibition will travel round the region and showcases the Stockton and Darlington Railway’s history using high-quality reproductions of important artifacts and documents found and brought together from archives across the UK.

This is one for the dedicated railway and train fans. A touring library exhibition will showcase the Stockton & Darlington Railway’s history using high-quality reproductions of important artifacts and documents, brought together from archives across the UK. Visiting libraries and civic spaces, The Whistle Stop will be a fascinating insight into the birth and subsequent development of the modern railway into what we see today.

Highlights include engineering drawings and rarely seen maps as well as a few amusing Victorian cartoons depicting the adventurous and strange inventions of the age.

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