GEORGE STEPHENSOJSr. 103 



" Tickets will be given to the workmen who are to dine at 

 Darlington, specifying the houses of entertainment. 



" The proprietors, and such of the nobility and gentry as may 

 honour them with their company, will dine precisely at three 

 o'clock at the Town Hall, Stockton. Such of the party as may 

 incline to return to Darlington that evening will find conveyances 

 in waiting for their accommodation, to start from the company's 

 wharf there precisely at seven o'clock. 



" The company take this opportunity of enjoining on all 

 their workpeople that attention to sobriety and decorum which 

 they have hitherto had the pleasure of observing. 



" The committee give this public notice, that all persons who 

 shall ride upon, or by the sides of the railway, on horseback, 

 will incur the penalties imposed by the Acts of Parliament 

 passed relative to this railway." 



Appended to the programme was the following footnote : — 



"Any individual desirous of seeing the train of waggons 

 descending the inclined plane from Etherley, and in progress to 

 Brusselton, may have an opportunity of so doing, by being on 

 the railway at St. Helen's, Auckland, not later than half-past 

 seven o'clock." 



At the foot of the Brusselton inchne the procession ol 

 vehicles was formed, consisting of the locomotive engine, *' No. 

 I," driven by George Stephenson himself; after it six waggons 

 loaded with coals and flour, then a covered coach containing 

 directors and proprietors, next twenty-one coal waggons fitted 

 cp for passengers (with which they were crammed), and lastlj- 

 six more waggons loaded with coals. 



Strange to say, a man on a horse, carrying a flag, with the 

 motto of the company inscribed on it, Periaduvi privatuir. 

 utilitas publica^ headed the procession ! A lithographic view gi 



