Named freight rail services and the corridors they run on, considered separately from passenger rail because freight timetabling, rolling stock and traffic patterns follow a different history. Belongs here: any named freight rail service or freight-dedicated rail corridor of real significance. Does not belong here: passenger rail services, tracked under Long-Distance and High-Speed Passenger Rail Services, or the physical railway itself as a built work, tracked as an infrastructure entity.
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1. Wikipedia: Stockton and Darlington Railway
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The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, its first line connected collieries near Shildon with Darlington and Stockton in County Durham, and was officially opened on 27 September 1825.
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