Pub listed to celebrate S&DR railway anniversary

The Cleveland Bay has been listed to mark 200 years of the modern railway

A pub has been Grade II listed to celebrate the 200 year anniversary of the modern railway.

The Cleveland Bay pub, in Eaglescliffe, was built as a proto-railway station in association with the Stockton and Darlington Railway.

The pub, originally named as The New Inn, was built to oversee the coal and lime depot at the end of the Yarm branch line.

Claudia Kenyatta CBE and Emma Squire CBE, the joint incoming chief executives of Historic England, said the new listing helps "highlight key milestones" in the growth of railway.

The Cleveland Bay public house opened on 17 October 1825.

Other public houses were soon commissioned by the Stockton and Darlington Railway at coal depots at Stockton, Darlington and Heighington.

All four buildings can be seen as early proto-railway stations, built before the concept of the railway station had fully evolved.

Ms Kenyatta and Ms Squire said: "Every newly-listed station announced today is open to the public to visit, so the protection of these sites means that they will continue to be seen and enjoyed by visitors for generations to come."

The six other sites linked to early railway have also been listed, they are - Havenstreet Railway Station, Isle of Wight, Woody Bay Station, Devon, Swanage Engine Shed and Turntable, Dorset, Northbrook Road overbridge, Dorset, and Sheringham and Weybourne stations in Norfolk.