Pockerley Waggonway comprises an 1825 engine shed (based on the buildings of Timothy Hackworths works at Shildon) and a length of track on which to run a replica of George Stephenson's Locomotion No.1. The train pulls several carriages of the period including unique Unsprung Passenger Carriages with wooden planks for seats! This gives visitors the chance to experience for themselves early rail travel. This attraction is not open during the winter season.
In the engine shed, visitors can see an example of another engine - The Industrial Locomotive.
The Steam Elephant
New for Summer 2002 is the replica of the Steam Elephant.
The Steam Elephant engine was originally designed and built in 1815, by William Chapman and John Buddle for use at the Collieries at Wallsend, Washington and Hetton. It was operational until the 1840s.
In 1834, a writer, Stephen Oliver, noted the Steam Elephant: "The great coalfield of Newcastle appears likely to be exhausted within two hundred years. Shares in railway companies will then be at an awful discount and steam elephants will inevitably perish for want of food!"