Summary
CHRIS LLOYD revisits a rail disaster that shook the British Empire to its core and discovers its connection with bankruptcy in the North-East
FIRST time around, more than 150 years ago, the Weardale Railway required the equivalent of about 3.5m in today's money to get it going.See the full content of this document
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From the Tees to Disaster On the Silvery Tay
Eight men put up the bulk of it. By and large, they are the usual south Durham suspects, but a couple of different names also crop up, including one who is linked to the most dramatic Gothic pile in the district and whose fortune was lost in the worst engineering disaster of all time.
Parliament granted permission for the Weardale Railway on July 31, 1845. It was to run from Wear Valley Junction up the dale to Frosterley. Last weekend, the section between Wol...See the full content of this document
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