Route of the Stockton & Darlington Railway trackside sign is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 2022. Sign.

Route of the Stockton & Darlington Railway trackside sign

WRENN ID
swift-truss-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Darlington
Constituency
Darlington MP: Lola McEvoy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 January 2022
Type
Sign
OS grid reference
NZ 296 153
Coordinates
54.53226, -1.54343
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a trackside sign dating from 1937, created for the London North Eastern Railway. It features white-painted, sheet-steel lettering in the Gill Sans font, which is mounted on a framework of black-painted box-section steel beams. The sign displays the text: "ROUTE OF STOCKTON & DARLINGTON RAILWAY 1825."

Local climate

Route of the Stockton & Darlington Railway trackside sign receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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