THE TRUST ADOPTED THE RAILWAY STATION ON THE 29TH MARCH 2010 FROM NORTHERN RAIL WITH THE AIM TO
UPGRADE THE POOR FACILITIES AND MAKE BISHOP AUCKLAND STATION ONE OF THE BEST SMALL STATIONS IN THE
NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND WITH MOST OF THE FACILITIES OF A LARGER MAINLINE STATION!
THE BISHOP LINE HAS A RICH HISTORY IT FOLLOWS PART OF THE ORIGINAL 1825 STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON RAILWAY
THE FIRST COMMERCIAL RAILWAY IN THE WORLD, THE RAILWAY ALSO PASSES THROUGH SHILDON TOWN THE "CRADLE
OF THE RAILWAYS" WHERE TIMOTHY HACKWORTH BUILT UP A LARGE STEAM ENGINE BUILDING BUSINESS IN THE EARLY
TO MID 1800'S, SHILDON WAS ALSO HOME TO ONE OF THE LARGEST RAILWAY WAGON BUILDING FACTORY'S IN BRITAIN
UNTIL 1984 WHEN IT FINALLY CLOSED, IT WAS KNOWN LOCALLY AS" SHILDON SHOPS", TODAY SHILDON IS HOME
TO LOCOMOTION THE NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM WHICH PULLS IN THOUSANDS OF VISITORS EACH YEAR!
THE BISHOP LINE ALSO RUNS THROUGH DARLINGTON NORTH ROAD STATION WHICH IS NEXT TO THE ORIGINAL
STOCKTON& DARLINGTON STATION OF THE SAME NAME WHICH IS NOW KNOWN AS HEAD OF STEAM
MUSEUM WHICH HOUSES ORIGINAL STEAM ENGINES AND ROLLING STOCK WHICH WERE BUILT IN DARLINGTON AND
SHILDON AND USED ON THE LINE IN THE 1800'S
