Yorkshire Philosophical Society

Event Information

YPS Together with YANT (York Association of the National Trust) presents a Teesside railways and river day.

We will spend the morning at Hopetown Museum, formerly Head of Steam, in the week celebrating 200 years of the Stockton to Darlington Railway.  North Road Station Museum is in the 1840s Victorian station building and explains Darlington’s role in 200 years of railway heritage.  Carriage Works (a Grade II listed building) contains the Exhibition Hall. This will have the exhibition “Steam to the Future” during our visit, reflecting on the history of steam railways and how the rail industry is gearing up for a second revolution driven by the growing green technologies sector in Teesside.  We will have a curator led tour – thanks to YANT for sponsoring this talk and thanks also to the Cleveland Association of the National Trust who instigated this day for us and will join us.

See the Museum website for more details: https://www.hopetowndarlington.co.uk/

Our coach will collect us at 12.45pm to take us to Preston Park jetty where we will board the “Tees Princess” river cruiser for a 3.5-hour cruise with full afternoon tea. This includes quiche, sandwiches, a scone with jam and cream finishing with a selection of sweet treats and a pot of tea.  On the boat we will be on the top deck, which is covered and heated, but does involve climbing a staircase to reach it.  Have a look at the video on the “Tees Princess” website:

https://teessideprincess.co.uk/

Ingleby’s coach will leave Memorial Gardens at 8.30am to reach Hopetown by 10am.  The coach will collect us at 12.45pm and take us to Preston Park to board the boat ready to sail at 1.30pm.  The coach will pick us up at Preston Park at 5pm to return to York.   The cost is £45 per person which includes coach, gratuities, cruise and afternoon tea. Please be aware that there are stairs to climb on the boat and sensible shoes must be warn.

Booking form here and please note that places are limited:

Tees Day booking form final

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