SLEEPERS KEEP HERITAGE STORY on TRACK MEMBERS of the Brus- the Display
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Issue No 975 At the heart of our wonderful community Friday 2nd October 2020 SLEEPERS KEEP HERITAGE STORY ON TRACK MEMBERS OF the Brus- the display. selton Incline Group have Though the display cur- collaborated with local rently shows only rails businesses and Durham attached to the ‘two- County Council to intro- hole’ sleepers, there are duce a new rail heritage plans to soon complete installation to mark the the effect by adding the 195th Anniversary of the next generation of chairs opening of the Stockton and rails to the four hole and Darlington Railway. sleepers. To do this they have In addition, the group brought back to Shil- are hoping to soon do don some of the original some essential work to stone railway sleepers restore and preserve the that were discovered only nearby railway signal a few yards away over post that stood at the three decades ago. entrance to the Shildon After the BREL Shil- Works. don Works closed in the For some time this had 1980s, the former engi- become obscured by neering rail site under- trees and bushes that went a transformation have now been cleared. to become an industrial A spokesman for the estate and home to sev- group said, “the steam eral other businesses. passenger railway Bicen- The sleepers were redis- The railway sleepers and fishbelly rails, with display board, have been installed as close as possible tenary in 2025 ought to covered when part of the to the starting point of the original route which carried the world’s first passenger train in 1825. be a terrific opportunity site was excavated to for this area to look at create an access road back home and put them 1825 to make its steam rail ‘chairs’ in place, and its role in the world rail- through the estate, which on display. hauled journey toward slightly later ‘four-hole’ way history and consider happened to shadow the Obtaining a license from Stockton, so an appropri- sleepers that were dis- how to use this not just to route that the Stockton & Durham County Council, ate and notable location. covered in time to be appreciate the past, but Darlington Railway Com- the group selected the The display is intended more stable. to give future benefit. pany built just over 195 site as being as close as to demonstrate the early The group have also “The romance of the years ago. practically possible to the evolution of the route arranged for example steam era gives eternal The newly unearthed course of the original line itself from 1825 through rails to be installed to fascination to young and stones were removed and which passed by an older to the 1830s, featuring show how the rails too old, and we’re sure it will had been stored by plant iteration of the Mason’s different stages to show evolved over those pio- continue to do so. hire owner Reuben Smith Arms, sited where the how the pioneering Geor- neering years. “Our area is in a unique ever since. Cape to Cairo restaurant gian engineers improved To this effect the group position, and not neces- The Brusselton Incline is today. the effectiveness of the are grateful for the help sarily for just a few days Group saw the 27th of This is of course route over time. of staff at Shildon’s in five years’ time. Sept 2020, the date mark- approximately where the It shows earlier ‘two- Locomotion museum “How we choose to put ing five years to go to first train of coal, goods hole’ sleepers, so named who supported the pro- that to work for us is up to the steam passenger rail and passengers was then from the number of holes ject by allowing access us as a community. Bicentenary, as an ideal attached to Stephenson’s created to accommo- to ‘chairs’ and rails that opportunity to bring them Locomotion No.1 back in date pins that held the could be replicated for CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 ELECTRIC & MANUAL RECLINER SUITES EST 1898 OVER 20 IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY 47-49 Main Street, Shildon, DL4 1AF 01388 772671 | Park right outside our www.hackettandbaines.co.uk showroom and shop at your leisure! [email protected] Published at: 3-4 First Floor Offices, Shildon Town Council, Civic Hall Square, Shildon DL4 1AH • Editorial: 01388 775896 • Advertising: 07909 992731 • Email: [email protected] • Online: www.swd.news/crier • You can read all our sister papers online at www.swd.news: Spennymoor News • Ferryhill & Chilton Chapter • The Bishop Press For more news from Shildon and across South West Durham visit: www.swd.news Friday 2nd October 2020 Published by South West Durham News Classifieds 3-4 First Floor Offices All about local people ... 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LORRY CRASHES INTO HOME ON MIDDRIDGE VALE RESIDENTS LIVING in to the scene, but thank- Middridge Vale were left fully nobody suffered any shaken last week, after injuries. a lorry veered off the However the incident road and collided with a has resulted in the occu- house. pants of two houses Police were called at being forced to leave 2.50pm on Thursday 24th their homes until the September when the HGV buildings are deemed mounted the pavement safe by structural engi- and hit the front wall of neers. a home on Sterling Way The police declined to - just off the roundabout comment on the cause at the bottom of Spout of the accident, but it is GET CREATIVE WITH OUR Lane. understood that there Paramedics and the fire will be no action taken FRIGHTFULLY GOOD COMPETITION! service were also called against the driver. THE TOWN Crier is ghoul- a picture on an actual picture, name and age ishly excited to announce pumpkin... be as imagi- to Shildon Pumpkin SLEEPERS COME HOME TO KEEP our participation in a Hal- native as you want. Project on Facebook loween art competition The winning picture or shildonpumpkinpro- HERITAGE STORY ON TRACK for under 16s, organised will be published in the [email protected] before by the Shildon Pumpkin Town Crier, where it will Saturday 17th October.