Stockton and Darlington Railway, with branches by George Overton, 1818 Deposited 30 September 1818 (plan) and 27 February 1819 (section) Q/D/P 2b/1 ‘Plan of an Intended Rail or Tram Road From the Collieries Near West Auckland by Darlington to Stockton’ Shows the route of the main line from Etherley Colliery via Lands, Evenwood, Morton Tinmouth and Denton to the River Tees south of Darlington, with branches to Coundon Grange (Black Boy Colliery) and Piercebridge. The boundary of the coalfield is indicated by a dashed line. No route is shown east of Darlington. No scale approx. 4 inches to 1 mile Q/D/P 2b/2 ‘Book of Reference A List of the names of the owners or reputed owners and occupiers of the respective lands in or through which the railway or tramroad and the several branches from the same respectively described in the plan hereunto annexed are intended to be made’ Main line (nos. 1-168) Branch to Black Boy (nos. 1-29) East Branch to Croft (un-numbered) West Branch to Croft (1-8) Branch to Piercebridge (1-8) Branch to Witton Park (un-numbered) Branch to Yarm (1-9) Q/D/P 2b/3 1 ‘A Section of the Intended Railway or Tram Road from Stockton by Darlington to the Collieries in the Neighbourhood of West Auckland as Surveyed under the direction of Geo. Overton in 1818-19’ 2 ‘Section of the Branch Railway from Black Boy to Bolton Garths’ 3 ‘Section of the Branch to Piersebridge’ 4 untitled branch to ‘Eglescliff’ Horizontal scale of plan and sections: 4 inches to 1 mile 1:15,840 Vertical scale of sections: 1 inch to 200 feet 1:2,400 Previously numbered Q/D/P 5b, see also note under Q/D/P 4 W.W. Tomlinson (Tomlinson’s North Eastern Railway: Its Rise and Development, p.51) notes that the plans ‘bore evident signs of hasty preparation without a section or even the engineer’s name ‘ He also states (p.62) that ‘The promoters of the bill had been allowed by the House to deposit, on or before the 12th of March 1819, the section of the line which, as they stated, in consequence of the illness of one of the surveyors, they had omitted to lodge at the proper time.’ Original number 38a – From: DEPOSIT AND REGISTRATION