Darlington Steampunk Weekend

Name: Darlington Steampunk Weekend
Start: 2025-11-15T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-16T17:00:00+00:00
Location: McNay Street, DL3 6SW

Schedule

Sat, 15 Nov, 2025 at 10:00 am to Sun, 16 Nov, 2025 at 05:00 pm

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Location

McNay Street, DL3 6SW | Darlington, EN

We are excited to our first Steampunk Weekend for you to all come and explore! Come along and experience a re-imagining of the past, where steam power is the primary energy source, and fantastical inventions await!
🧭 The Goods Shed is home to the Clocktower Café with delicious cakes, tea and coffee, Hopetown Goods & Gifts and a digital media experience
⚙️ Explore the North Road Station Museum filled with a variety of Steampunk stalls selling Victoriana, jewellery, clothes, hats and assorted crafts
🧭 Table top games
⚙️ Live entertainment and activities
🧭 Classic vehicle display
⚙️ Tea duelling and Umbrella duelling
🧭 Photo opportunities throughout the site with onsite photographer
⚙️ Best dressed costume prizes
🧭 Real-life Marionette
⚙️ Daily promenades along the museum platform and through the Station Garden
🧭 Engage with the museum’s collections and archive and delve into the history of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. Discover objects and artefacts relating to the development and operation of railways in North East England.
⚙️ Enjoy live music, including Alice Strange (Saturday),Captain of the Lost Waves (Sunday) and the Cogkneys (Sunday)
🧭 Experiment - The railway-themed time travel immersive experience ride! £5 per person Join Georgie and Stephen on a vivid journey through passenger rail travel, travelling across continents and through time - from 1825 to the present day and into the future!
⚙️ Check out live engineering in action at Darlington Locomotive Works (Saturday) to see the Darlington built locomotives Tornado and Prince of Wales
🧭 Plus, look out for the working model railway!
🎩 Exhibitors include AJ Gift Studios, Balefire, BBQ Steam Train, Crafts by Chelle, Crystal Flakes, Dreaded Mead, Elegant Darkness, Faeries Follies and Favours, Handmade by Kim, Hannah's Sweets and more!