‘Primitive, isolated and obscure, as one of the world’s earliest public railways, the Portland Railway can yet claim an honourable place in railway history’ is how J.H. Lucking summed up the Portland Railway’s significance.
2025 marks not only the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton to Darlington Railway, but also the incorporation of the Portland Railway Act and the formation of the Portland Railway Company.
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