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Major industries in Stockton include ship-repairing, steel and chemicals.
The town is most famous for its associations with the Stockton and Darlington Railway on which ran the world's first steam hauled passenger train in 1825. The town also has the world's oldest railway station building, and also contains much Georgian architecture.
It was also the home of John Walker, who invented the friction match in 1826.
Stockton-on-Tees borough council
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