Our Past | Newcastle to Maitland railway comes of age: opens March 30, 1857

By Lawrie Henderson
Updated August 24 2020 - 10:35am, first published August 23 2020 - 2:00pm
HISTORY IS MADE: The first locomotive on the Great Northern Railway, built by Robert Stephenson & Co and imported from Great Britain. (Picture: Newcastle Herald Archives).
HISTORY IS MADE: The first locomotive on the Great Northern Railway, built by Robert Stephenson & Co and imported from Great Britain. (Picture: Newcastle Herald Archives).

After the first sod was turned on November 8, 1854, railway construction began from Newcastle towards Hexham.

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