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           <description><![CDATA[CHAPTER ONE: Before the birth of the railways in 1825, coal was hoofed over the hills of County Durham to the sea.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[CHAPTER TWO: As the summer of 1818 turned, the towns of the Tees valley were engaged in a race into the future. Stockton was ahead.]]></description>
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           <title>Lords left a-leaping in efforts to block the railway pioneers</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[CHAPTER THREE: Lord Darlington was desperate to stop the railway. So desperate, in fact, that he tried to break the bank.]]></description>
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           <title>How Pease's savings rescued the railway</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[CHAPTER FOUR: The King is dead! Long live the King! The Railway Bill is dead! Will the railway ever come to life?]]></description>
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           <title>Kitchen table talks that changed railway history</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[On 
              the evening of April 19, 1821, two strangers approached the front 
              door of Edward Pease's home in Northgate, Darlington.]]></description>
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           <title>The little rail that was to be 'a potent sceptre'</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  Some time in October 1821, in a field near the River Tees at Stockton, George Stephenson accosted some farm labourers.
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           <title>How railway builders took on the fairies</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[When, in the 17th Century, a Frenchman called Solomon de Caux predicted that one day everything would move by steam power, he was locked up in a Paris asylum.
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           <title>Locomotive delay which held up start of railways</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[In 
              principle, the idea was commendably simple. George Stephenson and 
              his son, Robert, would be set up in business to build locomotives 
              for the Stockton and Darlington Railway.]]></description>
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           <title>How first railway architect became a figure of note</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[Where brooks and becks stood in the way of the railway pioneers, 
              George Stephenson was allowed to throw single span arches over them.]]></description>
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           <title>Lawyers and locomotives both provided headaches</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[As 1825 dawned, it looked like the Stockton and Darlington Railway 
              was running out of steam. Problems were piling up all over the place, 
              even as the pioneers&#8217; first iron bridge over the River Gaunless 
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           <title>No match for the advent of Locomotion</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[And lo, the locomotive arrived, and the people were sore afraid...]]></description>
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           <title>Breakdowns and bruises, but the railway is still a runaway success</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[The dawn of Tuesday, September 27, 1825, found thousands of people 
              heading on foot, horseback and by carriage to see the entrance of 
              a new era of transport: the railway.]]></description>
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           <title>Locomotion steams in the new era to 21-gun salute and nine cheers</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[It had taken Locomotion No 1 two hours to travel the nine miles 
              from Brusselton to Darlington on the opening morning of the Stockton 
              and Darlington Railway (S&amp;DR).]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[The railway was up and running. The first train, triumphantly pulled 
              by Locomotion No 1, had passed along the 20 miles from Shildon to 
              Stockton via Darlington on September 27, 1825 &#8211; the culmination 
              of seven decades of argument and ten years of overcoming obstacles.]]></description>
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           <title>A royal asset that rose from the ashes after Hope had died</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[Timothy Hackworth solemnly rose to address the committee of the 
              Stockton and Darlington Railway. &quot;Gentlemen,&quot; he said. 
              &quot;If you will allow me to make you an engine in my own way I 
              will engage that it shall answer your purpose.&quot;]]></description>
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           <title>Complex birth of first railway town</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[Early in 1828, Joseph Pease sailed up the River Tees towards what he was calling Port Darlington. His brain was working overtime.]]></description>
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           <title>Momentous events that saw t'iron hoss triumph over the real thing</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[After eight years of operation, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 
              which celebrates its 175th anniversary next month, fully embraced 
              steam power.]]></description>
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           <title>Southern Quaker who helped to shape North</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[Went by railway from Darlington to Stockton by steam - 56 minutes 
              - then down to Middlesbro'; inspected the clay as to a scheme for 
              the establishment of a pottery, then walked thro' the town, much 
              increased in two years.]]></description>
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           <title>The 'forgotten' railway station at centre of anniversary festivities</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[THE world's first passenger coach, the Experiment, had been a shed 
              fixed to wheels, so it is little surprise that the early stations 
              on the world's first passenger railway were also wooden constructions 
              in which nowadays we would keep spades and other gardening paraphernalia.]]></description>
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