Today we are visiting the railway museum at Shildon. Shildon is on the Stockton & Darlington Railway Line the first railway in the world. The contest between Stephensons "Rocket" and Hackworths "Sans Pareil" took part here. The winner being Stephensons "Rocket" . Below is the original "Sans Pareil"
This is a reproduction of Sans Pareil, this one works.
One of the original carriages from The Stockton & Darlington.
This is the Engine and carriage used in the film "The Railway Children"from the late 1960's
The famous "Flying Scotsman" built in 1902 and sadly starting to show its age, for a long time the fastest locomotive in the world.
The engine built in Btitain and shipped out to South Africa and used in Zambia and Zimbabwe now in retirement at Shildon.
The LMS 5000 engine, when I went to school in Lancaster the trains were pulled by these brutes, not sure wether this one is pre or post war. They were made over a long period of time and used right through to the change over to diesel in the 60's
An American Baldwin made in Philadelphia in 1943 shipped over to England and used to ferry GI's and their stuff around the northeast, moved over to France in 1944 and finished up in Poland. After the curtain came down it came back to the northeast.
This is the "Hardwicke" which held the speed record sometime in the 1850's.
The very first Royal Train from the 1840's
Another old engine built in Britain and used abroad, this one worked in Sierra Leone.
Our short trip to England is nearly over and we return to,France tomorrow.
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