Stainmore Railway – West Side Story Photographic Exhibition

2nd June 2025 12:00am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Special Event

We're delighted to be one of the stops on this touring exhibition!

With funding support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, this photographic exhibition tells the story of the key role played by the Stockton and Darlington Railway, and its successors, in North West England.

2025 is the bicentenary of the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR) which built, and initially operated, the route over Stainmore to transport coal, coke and iron ore to / from the blast furnaces in Teesside, Furness & West Cumberland. A key feature of this was the operation of freight traffic over the Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway.

Comprising of material from the archives of the JW Armstrong Railway Photographic Trust, Cumbrian Railways Association, North Eastern Railway Association, Stainmore Railway Company and a number of private collections.

For more information please visit the organisersfacebook pageor visit theirwebsite.

There's no need to book, the exhibition will be available to view when the centre is open to the public (during box office hours Monday and Friday 10am-12) and when the bar is open for events between the 2nd and 15th June. On selected dates there will be a volunteer available to answer queries. These dates will be announced as soon as possible.