Most weekends, there are DRPS members down at Whessoe Road helping to lay track in time for the celebrations for the 200th Anniversary of the Stockton Darlington Railway, due to begin in September this year.
Track Laying at North Road Locomotive Works
A DRPS member helps offload rail delivered to the DRPS HQ
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