Locomotives of the Stockton and Darlington Railway
The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was a railway company that operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863. The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives,[1] its first line connected collieries near Shildon with Stockton-on-Tees and Darlington, and was officially opened on 27 September 1825. The movement of coal to ships rapidly became a lucrative business, and the line was soon extended to a new port and town at Middlesbrough. While coal waggons were hauled by steam locomotives from the start, passengers were carried in coaches drawn by horses until carriages hauled by steam locomotives were introduced in 1833.
The S&DR was involved in the building of the East Coast Main Line between York and Darlington, but its main expansion was at Middlesbrough Docks and west into Weardale and east to Redcar. It suffered severe financial difficulties at the end of the 1840s and was nearly taken over by the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway, before the discovery of iron ore in Cleveland and the subsequent increase in revenue meant it could pay its debts. At the beginning of the 1860s it took over railways that had crossed the Pennines to join the West Coast Main Line at Tebay and Clifton, near Penrith.
The company was taken over by the North Eastern Railway in 1863, transferring 200 route miles (320 route kilometres) of line and about 160 locomotives, but continued to operate independently as the Darlington Section until 1876. The opening of the S&DR was seen as proof of the effectiveness of steam railways and its anniversary was celebrated in 1875, 1925 and 1975. Much of the original route is now served by the Tees Valley Line, operated by Northern.
Locomotives were sometimes renumbered, and the old numbers re-used for new locomotives. The following list does not include all renumberings.
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Disposal
When the North Eastern Railway (NER) took over the Stockton and Darlington Railway (SDR) in 1863, the SDR stock included 157 locomotives. The SDR locomotives were administered by a separate committee until 1873. The SDR locomotives were renumbered in 1873, mostly by the addition of 1000. In September 1875 there were still 55 SDR locomotives in existence.[60]
References
- Not Experiment by Richard Roberts
- Not the better-known Stephenson's Rocket
- Not SR Leader class
- Construction of the Majestic and Wilberforce classes (nos. 12-23) was allocated equally to Robert Stephenson and Company and R and W Hawthorn
- Baxter state Shildon was No. 38
- Baxter states name as Guisboro
- Baxter states built by Jones, Turner and Evans.
- Baxter states built in July 1843
- This may be Thomas Kirtley whose company, Thomas Kirtley and Co., built locomotives from 1837 to 1841
- Baxter states that some sources have the names of Nos. 56 and 57 reversed
- Possibly John Graham who joined the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1831 and was Traffic Manager until 1849
- Baxter states built by Shildon Works
- Baxter notes that Lowe records this locomotive as an 0-6-0
- Kirby 2002, back page.
- Baxter (1986), p. 65.
- Baxter (1986), p. 82.
- "Early locomotives". Grace's Guide.
- Baxter (1986), p. 76.
- Baxter (1986), p. 81.
- Baxter (1986), p. 71.
- Baxter (1986), p. 68.
- Baxter (1986), p. 66.
- Baxter (1986), pp. 70–71.
- Baxter (1986), pp. 68–69.
- J. Metcalfe (2016). "Timothy Hackworth". Railcentre - Railway History. p. 4.
- Baxter (1986), p. 70.
- Baxter (1986), pp. 81–82.
- Pearce (1996), p. 218.
- Baxter (1986), p. 67.
- J. Metcalfe (2016). "Timothy Hackworth". Railcentre - Railway History. p. 3.
- Baxter (1986), p. 69.
- Baxter (1986), pp. 69–70.
- Smith (2015), p. 40.
- Smith (2015), pp. 44–45.
- Pearce (1996), p. 220.
- Smith (2015), pp. 55–56.
- Baxter (1986), p. 75.
- Baxter (1986), pp. 75–76.
- Pearce (1996), p. 221.
- Baxter (1986), p. 73.
- Smith (2015), p. 55.
- https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/John_Hague
- Baxter (1986), p. 72.
- Baxter (1982), p. 15.
- Pearce (1996), p. 222.
- Baxter (1982), p. 17.
- Baxter (1986), pp. 73–74.
- Pearce (1996), p. 223.
- Baxter (1986), p. 74.
- Baxter (1986), pp. 76–77.
- Baxter (1986), p. 77.
- Baxter (1978), p. 50.
- Baxter (2012), p. 147.
- Baxter (1982), p. 13.
- Baxter (2012), p. 142.
- Baxter (1986), p. 78.
- Baxter (1986), pp. 78–79.
- Baxter (1986), p. 79.
- Baxter (1986), pp. 79–80.
- Baxter (1986), p. 80.
- Baxter (1986), pp. 80–81.
- "NER locomotives". Steam Index.
- Baxter, Bertram (1978). Baxter, David (ed.). British Locomotive Catalogue 1825–1923, Volume 2A: London and North Western Railway and its constituent companies. Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Moorland Publishing Company. ISBN 0-903485-51-6.
- Baxter, Bertram (1982). Baxter, David (ed.). British Locomotive Catalogue 1825–1923. Volume 3A: Midland Railway and its constituent companies. Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Moorland Publishing Company. ISBN 9780903485524.
- Baxter, Bertram (1982). Baxter, David (ed.). British Locomotive Catalogue 1825–1923, Volume 3B: Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and its constituent companies. Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Moorland Publishing Company. ISBN 0-903485-85-0.
- Baxter, Bertram (1986). Baxter, David (ed.). British Locomotive Catalogue 1825–1923, Volume 5A: North Eastern Railway, Hull and Barnsley Railway. Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Moorland Publishing Company. pp. 63–84. ISBN 0-903485-54-0.
- Baxter, Bertram (2012). Baxter, David; Mitchell, Peter (eds.). British Locomotive Catalogue 1825–1923, Volume 6: Great Eastern Railway, North British Railway, Great North of Scotland Railway, Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway, remaining companies in the LNER group. Southampton: Kestrel Railway Books. ISBN 978-1-905505-26-5.
- Kirby, Maurice W. (4 July 2002). The Origins of Railway Enterprise: The Stockton and Darlington Railway 1821–1863. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-89280-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Pearce, T R (1996). The Locomotives of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. London: Historical Model Railway Society. ISBN 0902835149.
- Smith, George Turner (2015). Thomas Hackworth: Locomotive Engineer. Fonthill. ISBN 978-1-78155-464-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)