Editing Darlington (section)

====Stivvies====
[[File:Stooperdale Offices, Darlington (geograph 6393231).jpg|thumb|Stooperdale Offices (built for the [[North Eastern Railway Company]])]]

During the early 19th century, Darlington remained a small market town.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A History of Darlington |url=http://www.localhistories.org/darlington.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203005824/http://www.localhistories.org/darlington.html |archive-date=3 December 2019 |access-date=4 May 2011 |website=localhistories.org}}</ref>

The [[Stockton and Darlington Railway]] ran steam locomotives designed for passengers and goods, built to a standard gauge, on a permanent main line with branches. On 27 September 1825, [[George Stephenson]]'s engine, ''[[Locomotion No. 1]]'', travelled between [[Shildon]] and [[Stockton-on-Tees]] via Darlington, an event that was seen as ushering in the modern railway age.

Later in the 19th century, the town became an important centre for railway manufacturing. An early railway works was the [[Hopetown Carriage Works]] (est. 1853), which supplied carriages and locomotives to the Stockton and Darlington Railway. The engineering firm of [[William and Alfred Kitching]] also manufactured locomotives there around this time. The town eventually developed three significant railway works:
* The largest of these was the main line [[Darlington Works]]; its main factory, the North Road Shops, opened in 1863 and remained in operation until 1966. 
* [[Robert Stephenson and Company|Robert Stephenson & Co.]] (colloquially: "Stivvies"), moved to Darlington from [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] in 1902. It was renamed ''Robert Stephensons & Hawthorns'' in 1937, was absorbed by [[English Electric]] around 1960 and had closed by 1964. 
* [[Faverdale Wagon Works]] was established in 1923 and closed in 1962; in the 1950s, it was a UK pioneer in applying mass-production techniques to the manufacture of railway goods wagons.