GHOST TRAIN / NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM

S&DR200 Presents: Ghost Train (Darlington)

S&DR200 has commissioned a festival featuring performers, live music and a procession of large-scale art installations representing some of the world's most important inventions and to commemorate this remarkable feat of innovation and engineering.

The art installations will replicate the Locomotion Number 1 locomotive and 8 coal chaldrons, each containing performers and artists in a carnival style procession.

Saturday 20 September

The installations will be in the town centre during the day. At approximately 7pm, the installations will come together on the market square and proceed to Hopetown Darlington via Northgate, North Lodge Park and Bartlett Street.

The procession will end outside North Road Station Museum between 8pm-9pm where Hopetown Darlington will be open for Night at the Museum, where you can come and enjoy a unique opportunity to experience Hopetown at night!

Explore the museum, enjoy food and drink from our wonderful Clocktower Café, and even play in a fully illuminated Wagon Woods!* We'll even have a silent disco playing locomotive themed tunes.

There are stories of ghost sightings and strange occurrences inside North Road Station Museum with activity more prominent on an evening. Why not come and take a look to see if you can see or feel anything yourself?

Be here at Hopetown to greet the spectacle as it arrives, or follow the convoy as it travels through the town. Either way, be part of the celebration! This is a truly unique event not to be missed!

*Golden Wagon Woods Tickets are not valid during Night At The Museum. 

Sunday 21 September

The Ghost Train will be on display at Hopetown Darlington throughout the day before moving to Stockton.

Delivered by: Darlington Borough Council & Stockton Borough Council.
Major Funders: Tees Valley Combined Authority.