Darlington Borough Council has given the  name 'Local Motion' to its scheme for tackling congestion in the town.  ('Locomotion' was the name of the engine, pictured above,  which pulled the first train at the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825.)

A conference on 2 April 2008,  organised by the Darlington Borough Council in partnership with NCW, was  centred round Darlington’s efforts at sustainability; relating this Local Motion initiative to the benefits to health and the environment of a reduced dependency on cars.  There were several workshops, including two on ‘Marketing Health and the Environment’ and ‘Eco-foot printing’. 

Margaret Field, Chair of the NCW Transport Policy Committee, was the final speaker in the morning session,  and spoke on 'the National Council of Women – its transport concerns'.

  Rachel Chitty and Margaret Field at the NCW stall
   at the conference