{"id":29573,"date":"2025-01-18T13:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T12:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=29573"},"modified":"2025-01-18T13:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T12:41:18","slug":"when-and-where-was-the-worlds-first-railway-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=29573","title":{"rendered":"When and where was the world&#8217;s first railway line?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The world&#8217;s first public railway to use steam locomotives ran between Stockton and Darlington in the north-east of England. Since my family name is Darlington (although I&#8217;ve only visited the town once &#8211; in 1983), this historical event has always had a special resonance for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The line was officially opened on 27 September 1825. Of course, that means that this autumn will see the 200th anniversary of the event. I&#8217;m sure that locally there will be some celebrations and it may even make the national and international news. Remember where you heard it first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Stockton &amp; Darlington Railway Company operated until 1863, but much of the original route is still used today by the Tees Valley Line operated by Northern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can learn more about this historic development <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stockton_and_Darlington_Railway\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stockton_and_Darlington_Railway\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s first public railway to use steam locomotives ran between Stockton and Darlington in the north-east of England. Since my family name is Darlington (although I&#8217;ve only visited the town once &#8211; in 1983), this historical event has always had a special resonance for me. The line was officially opened on 27 September 1825. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs","category-history","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29576,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29573\/revisions\/29576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}