Whistle Stop

Whistle Stop, presented by the S&DR200 Festival, gives visitors to Darlington Library Art Gallery the chance to step back 200 years in time to see important documents and images from the birth of the modern railway. The exhibition is an introduction to the very start of the S&DR story.

The documents have been brought together from archives across the UK and include engineer drawings and rarely seen maps, as well as cultural paintings, poems and cartoons depicting the adventurous and strange inventions of the age!

“This touring exhibition has already delighted visitors in Durham and Stockton-on-Tees libraries, and I hope Darlington residents will come along and see this impressive collection of artefacts from around the country. The Whistle Stop is a fascinating insight into the birth and subsequent development of the modern railway into what we see today.” - Niccy Hallifax, S&DR200 festival director

The exhibition is free and you can see a selection of works from Darlington Borough Art Collection and the Centre for Local Studies linked to our rich railway heritage.