More infoA landlord is delighted after his Eaglescliffe pub has been listed by the Government to mark 200 years since opening of Stockton and Darlington Railway. The building, listed at Grade II, is the earliest identified pub in the world to be built specifically in association with a railway line. The Cleveland Bay was built for the chairman of the Stockton and Darlington Railway for the opening of the railway’s Yarm branch line in 1825. The establishment proved to be a success and appears to have prompted the Stockton and Darlington Railway to commission their own public houses at the coal depots at Stockton, Darlington and Heighington. The other sites listed to celebrate the birth of the modern railway are:The Stockton and Darlington Railway pioneered and influenced the early development of mainline railways.