Hopetown

The renewed Darlington railway museum uses currently
in vogue electronic presentations & interactive video

It brings together the existing carriage works (5), station (3) & goods shed (1)
with a new works (8) across the Darlington - Bishop Auckland line

Stored artefacts are caged for viewing by the public .....

..... who may recognise a fox from the right hand nameplate of an LNER D49 Hunt class loco

Does anyone know the purpose of the holes in the shovels?

There are a number of models .....

..... including of a Tyne & Wear metro & its precursors

An interesting early S&DR North Road timetable for ease of reading by the travelling public

NER timetable for a busier Darlington Bank Top station, displaying 12-hour clock

View through a gallery window of the new P2 in the new Hopetown loco works
(the floor of which is open to the public on the 1st & 3rd Saturdays of the month)

Replica of S&DR No.1, the original of which has been moved to NRM Shildon

'Derwent', a later but original S&D loco (fireman works on left, driver on right)

An RSH loco originally built as a saddle tank at the RSH Darlington works .....

..... as 6947 of 1938 for Appleby Frodingham (Scunthorpe) steel works
(compare with RSH 7035 0f 1941 'Donna' at TR)

A late afternoon westbound train at the active bidirectional section of North Road station