Soho Works
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Soho WorksDescription
This was a notable locomotive works. Timothy Hackworth, having ceased to be directly employed by Stockton and Darlington Railway, began building locomotives in Shildon in 1833 (he remained contracted to the company until 1840). The works was the leased original Shildon Works for the railway, expanded with the building of the Soho Works. It is thought that no part of the original railway company works survives but a single shed, in the southern part of the site, from the Soho Works period is intact. The much larger portion of the works to the north is now parkland.
This shed, with a high chimney at its east end was to be later used as a paint shop. By rail it was approached from the west.
This is presently at the west end of a siding from the NRM Shildon museum and used to store much of a Hackworth engine of 1837, a Stockton and Darlington Railway coach and a chaldron wagon.
Just to the south is a goods shed (1857) of the Shildon Goods yard and to the east the Shildon Coal Drops. Stables, associated with the Black Boy Incline also still stand immediately to the east.
To the west is the site of the former Masons Arms Level Crossing.
| Nearby stations Shildon Shildon [1st] Tunnel Junction [Shildon] Southchurch Newton Aycliffe Bishop Auckland Bishop Auckland West Coundon Bishop Auckland [NER] West Auckland Heighington Aycliffe Byers Green [3rd] Witton Park for Escomb Etherley and Witton Park [1st] | Shildon Goods Coke Works Shildon Coal Drops Shildon South Junction Masons Arms Level Crossing Shildon Works Engine Shed Shildon Works Wagon Works Thickley Quarry Shildon Lodge Colliery Shildon Tunnel Shildon Incline Eldon Bank Top Shildon Yard Edin Pit Tourist/other NRM Shildon |
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