A few days ago, looking at some change, I noticed a £2 coin with an image of a steam loco upon it, one I hadn’t seen for a very long time which was the 2004 minted Richard Trevithick coin celebrating the then 200th Anniversary of the first steam locomotive, now 21 years past. This coinContinue reading “Railway200 2025 undermined by a £2 Coin from 2004?”
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Railway200 around Tyneside; Tanfield300 & Bedlington400+ too?
With the Railway200 countdown clock ticking, and just over 100 days to go until 2025, the year being lauded as the 200th anniversary year from the birth of the ‘modern railway’ in 1825 with the opening of the Stockton and Darlington (S&D), maybe we also should celebrate the more than 200 years of ‘railway’ beforeContinue reading “Railway200 around Tyneside; Tanfield300 & Bedlington400+ too?”
Ryan Hogg 