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Hopetown Darlington

Hopetown Darlington, previously known as Head of Steam and formerly known as the Darlington Railway Centre and Museum, is a railway museum located on the 1825 route of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which was the world's first steam-powered passenger railway.
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hopetowndarlington.co.uk
teesvalleymuseums.org
+44 1325 460532
Wikipedia
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: railway museum in County Durham, England, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Darlington Railway Centre and Museum” and “Head of Steam”
  • Address: North Road, Darlington, DL3 6SW

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include North Road railway station and Hopetown Carriage Works.

Railway stop
Photo: Simon Armstrong, CC BY-SA 3.0.
North Road is a railway station on the Tees Valley Line, which runs between and via . The station, situated 1 mile 23 chains north-west of Darlington, serves the market town of in , England.

Museum
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, also known as the Stockton and Darlington Railway Carriage Works, was a carriage works of the Stockton and Darlington Railway built in 1853 in Hopetown, near , , England. is situated 560 feet west of Hopetown Darlington.

Building
Photo: Simon Armstrong, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rise Carr and Harrowgate, County Durham.

Suburb
is a place in , in . It is situated to the north of the centre of .

Suburb
Harrowgate Hill is a suburb of , in the Borough of Darlington, , England. The area includes the villages of , the Harrowgate Village as well as Ashbrook and Harrowgate Hill with the latter the largest part of the area.

Suburb
'Eastbourne' is a former village in the borough of Darlington and the ceremonial county of , England. It is situated immediately to the east of the town centre of of which it is now an area.

Hopetown Darlington

Latitude
54.53538° or 54° 32′ 7″ north
Longitude
-1.5542° or 1° 33′ 15″ west
Open location code
9C6WGCPW+58
Open­Street­Map ID
node 458774426
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Wiki­data ID
Q5223996
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Highlights include North Road and McNay Street Family Hub.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Hopetown Darlington”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.