The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_and_Darlington_Railway" id="mwVg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Stockton and Darlington Railway">Stockton and Darlington Railway</a>, is ceremonially opened with the engine <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotion_No._1" id="mwVw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Locomotion No. 1">Locomotion</a> pulling wagons with coal and passengers from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shildon" id="mwWA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Shildon">Shildon</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlington" id="mwWQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Darlington">Darlington</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton-on-Tees" id="mwWg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Stockton-on-Tees">Stockton</a>.<sup about="#mwt50" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./September_27#cite_note-8" id="mwWw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwXA">[8]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><cite about="#mwt47" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFRansom1981">Ransom, P. J. G. (1981). <i id="mwB2Q">The archaeology of railways</i>. Kingswood, Tadworth, Surrey: World's Work. p.<span id="mwB2U" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>45. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB2Y" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB2c" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780437144010" id="mwB2g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780437144010"><bdi id="mwB2k">9780437144010</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt47" class="Z3988" id="mwB2o" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+archaeology+of+railways&amp;rft.place=Kingswood%2C+Tadworth%2C+Surrey&amp;rft.pages=45&amp;rft.pub=World%27s+Work&amp;rft.date=1981&amp;rft.isbn=9780437144010&amp;rft.aulast=Ransom&amp;rft.aufirst=P.+J.+G.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASeptember+27"></span></span>