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Brusselton Incline, Shildon (Shildon)

This is the top of the first major hill on the Stockton and Darlington Railway. Some railway cottages and the wall of the building that housed the steam-powered engine that helped pull the wagons up the slope can still be seen.
D2598
Post Medieval (1540 to 1901)
Georgian (1714 to 1830)
Restoration of Brusselton Incline, Shildon 1992; Sedgefield District
RCHME: Durham SAMs Project 1991; Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England


Source of Reference
Local History of Shildon

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