Hopetown Experiment!

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 right here in Darlington to the Japanese bullet train and the Eurostar - 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.

Buckle in for North East England's only railway-themed simulator-style ride, which involves moderate rocking and tilting motions.

Each ride can accommodate nine people. Passengers in groups of ten or more will use multiple ride slots and may share it with people outside their group.

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