Experiment!

The railway-themed time travel immersive experience ride - opening autumn 2024

Join Georgie and Stephen on a vivid journey through passenger rail travel, travelling across continents and through time - from 1825 to the present day and into the future! From Locomotion No.1's first steam hauled passenger railway journey in 1825 right here in Darlington to the Japanese bullet train and French TGV - see the impact Darlington's pioneering past has had on societies and cultures across time and around the world.

Located on the platform at North Road Station Museum, Experiment! is an extraordinarily vivid immersion into passenger rail travel.

Wagon Woods

Encourage children's imaginations to run free at our railway-themed immersive outdoor adventure play park.

North Road Station Museum

Explore the story of Darlington’s pioneering progression of rail transport in the early 19th century in a museum housed in a Grade II* listed Victorian station.

Stories

It's 5 o' clock somewhere: from Darlington time to GMT

Standardisation of time is all down to the expansion of the railways!

Is it a bird, is it a plane? Is it a loco, is it a train?

Is it a locomotive or is it a train? There's a lot of terminology in the railway world so let us explain the difference between a train and a locomotive.