A 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 Cleveland Bay pub in Eaglescliffe , is one of seven new listings announced to mark the milestone anniversary of the railway that was launched on September 27, 1825.

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 Department for Culture, Media and Sport decided to list, and ultimately protect the pub, on the advice of Historic England in celebration of the birth of modern passenger railway services which ultimately transformed the world.

Peter Rafferty, 67, who has been landlord at the pub for 32 years alongside his partner Barbara

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