Plan of the intended Railway or Tramroad from Stockton by Darlington

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• Title: Extract from "Plan of the intended Railway or Tramroad from Stockton by Darlington to the Collieries near West Auckland with several intended Branches of Railway or Tramroad"
• Date: 1821
• Catalogue number: Parliamentary Archives, HL/PO/PB/3/plan29
• Description:

  Although the first steam locomotive was invented by Richard Trevithick in 1804, it was civil and mechanical engineer George Stephenson who played the greatest part in the development of steam locomotives and the first railways.