Stockton & Darlington Railway Booking Office

From Shildon Works Collection. The Stockton & Darlington Railway's booking office at St John's Crossing, Stockton-on-Tees, around 1900.

In the early days of the Stockton & Darlington Railway the company adapted existing buildings rather than constructing new ones, and so adopted the practices of road coach operators. This house was used as a passenger booking office from about 1830.

St John's Crossing was the site of the first sod cutting of the Stockton & Darlington Railway in the autumn of 1821.