We all utter the names George and Robert Stephenson when we talk about the birth of the modern railway — but what about Timothy Hackworth? Few know his name, and more really should. Here in Shildon, his world still stands — his home, the Soho Engine Shed, and the Goods Shed, all part of the original Stockton & Darlington Railway, the first public line to use steam locomotives. Hackworth designed and built some of the earliest engines that truly worked — including Royal George and Sans Pareil — p