S&DR200
A festival celebrating the birth of the modern railway, March 2025 - March 2026.
S&DR200 is a year-long international festival taking place across County Durham and Tees Valley, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first journey on the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR).
This 26-mile journey on the S&DR between Shildon and Stockton via Darlington on 27 September 1825 transformed how the world traded, travelled, and communicated.
The S&DR200 Festival will present a series of free large-scale outdoor spectacles, events, exhibitions and new art commissions in the public spaces, libraries and world-class museums of County Durham and Tees Valley from March 2025 to March 2026.
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Our partners
The S&DR200 Festival is only possible thanks to the collaboration of several organisations.
S&DR Trail of Discovery
An overview of the S&DR Trail of Discovery and what it has to offer.
