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The little silver plaque betwixt window and
entrance says it all:
S.&.D.R.
In the commercial room of this
hotel, on the
12th Day of
February, 1820
was held the
Promoters’ Meeting
of the
Stockton & Darlington
Railway –
The first public railway in the world.
Thomas Meynell, esq., of Yarm, presided.
Strangely
enough, though, it wasn’t the first
meeting of the railway pioneers for the construction of the famous S&DR –
but it was the one from which the third, and successful, plan emerged which
would eventually be approved by Parliament in April the following year.
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