Steampunk Weekend
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December 20, 2025 –
December 20, 2025
Hopetown Darlington, McNay Street, Darlington, DL3 6SW
November 22, 2025 –
December 24, 2025
Stockeld Park, Wetherby Rd, Wetherby, LS22 4AN
June 27, 2026 –
June 27, 2026
Pool Lane, Nun Monkton, York YO26 8EL
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!
November 15, 2025 – November 16, 2025
Hopetown Darlington, McNay Street, Darlington, DL3 6SW
Related Attraction
December 20, 2025 –
December 20, 2025
Hopetown Darlington, McNay Street, Darlington, DL3 6SW
November 22, 2025 –
December 24, 2025
Stockeld Park, Wetherby Rd, Wetherby, LS22 4AN
June 27, 2026 –
June 27, 2026
Pool Lane, Nun Monkton, York YO26 8EL