Branching out: Cotherstone Station gained its branch service about 11 years after Barnard Castle had received its first train from Darlington. This image is thought to be from the turn…

Bicentenary: Joséphine Bowes in a 1850 portrait by Antoine Dury

MAKING NOISE: Sabina Kamall, right, likes to be loud on the Surdo drum

SAFETY FIRST: Mountain rescue team member Judd Hirst and the Spine safety team at Middleton-in-Teesdale