Talk:1822 in rail transport

1st rail Stockton & Darlington Railway?
Stockton & Darlington Railway The first rail of the line was laid in ceremonial style on 24th May, 1822 at Stockton by the Chairman of the Company, Thomas Meynell. The civic dignitaries turned out, bells were rung and ships sirens could be heard from the river. A procession through the streets was followed by the firing of a salute as Thomas Meynell laid the first stretch of rail. http://www.railcentre.co.uk/stockton/opening2.htm

Wdew 19:48, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Opening Hetton Railway
1822 - George Stephenson The Hetton Colliery in County Durham was a completely new colliery, which was begun on the 19th December 1819. From the start it was planned to use steam engines and steam locomotives to haul the coal from the pit to the newly erected staith on the banks of the Wear near Sunderland. George Stephenson laid out the railway, which was eight miles in length, but George’s brother Robert was made engineer put in charge of building it. The flat sections were worked at the time of opening by three of George Stephenson's steam locomotives. At the opening of the railway on 18th of November 1822 crowds of people came to see this new marvel. They witnessed the locomotives pulling seventeen loaded wagons, averaging sixty-four tons, at the rate of four miles an hour. http://www.locos-in-profile.co.uk/Articles/Early_Locos/early5.html In 1819 the Patton Colliery, in Durham, was altered into a locomotive railroad, and Mr. Stephenson ap pointed its chief engineer. He soon began his labors, and on the 18th of November, 1822, the road was opened for the first time for locomotives. Crowds came from all directions to witness the experiment. Five of Mr. Stephenson's engines were upon the road that day, each engine drawing after it seventeen wagons loaded, averaging sixty-four tons, at the rate of four miles an hour. http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/brown/chpt9.html In 1817, Stephenson built an engine for the Duke of Portland, to haul coal from Kilmarnock to Troon, which cost £750, and, with some interruptions, this engine worked on that line until 1848, when it wax broken up. On November 18, 1822, the Hetton Railway, near Sunderland, was opened. George Stephenson was the engineer of the line­a short track, 8 miles long, built from the Hutton Colliery to the docks on the bank of the river Wear. On this line he put in five of the " selfacting inclines "­two inclines worked by stationary engines, the gradients being too heavy for locomotives­and used five locomotiveengines of his own design, which were called by the people of the neighborhood, possibly for the first time, " the iron horses." These engines were quite similar to the Killingworth engine. They drew a train of 17 coalcars­a total load of 64 tons ­ about 4 miles an hour. http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/thurston/1878/Chapter4.html

Wdew (talk) 09:57, 16 July 2008 (UTC)