Locomotion No.1 – 200 Years of Railway History 🚂✨ Two centuries ago, Timothy Hackworth and George Stephenson built something the world had never seen before — a passenger steam railway right here in County Durham. Today, as Locomotion No.1 steams along the same route between Shildon and Newton Aycliffe, we’re not just watching a locomotive at work. We’re celebrating the moment that changed transport forever — the birth of the modern railway. Could Hackworth or Stephenson have imagined that 200