Oldest UK railway

[rainwight]

What is the oldest recorded railway in the UK, and when was it created?

[JoolsTwo]

Probably the Stockton to Darlington Railway opened in Sept. 1825. See here:-

http://www.railcentre.co.uk/

[dzug]

It depends on what you are prepared to accept as a railway.

This one (1803):

http://www.stephensonloco.fsbusiness.co.uk/surreyiron.htm

is earlier than the S&D and the link says it's the first public line. However there would have been railways (or plateways) in mines a century or so before this

[atoach]

As dzug says, it all depends what you mean by "railway". The Middleton Railway in Leeds (est. 1758) decribes itself as the "oldest working railway".

[ianess]

Creation?........or Evolution?

Discuss.