RAILSCOT | Tanfield Branch (Brandling Junction Railway)

If you go down to the woods today, you will find a coal wagon acting as a 'gate guardian' at the North end of the Tanfield Railway. For a little more ...
Ken Strachan 11/07/2015

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Bowes Bridge

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Marley Hill Colliery

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Marley Hill Shed

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The driver seems a little apprehensive as he takes his train through the points at the east end of the yard at Marley Hill. The locomotive is Hawthorn ...
John Furnevel //

This incline cable wheel on the Northern Incline (towards the Tyne) on the Bowes Railway is in excellent condition, considering that it has not been ...
Ken Strachan 05/08/2017

NCB 41, a long boiler 0-6-0PT, formerly Consett Iron Company A No.5. This was built by Kitson No.2509 of 1883 and is seen outside Marley Hill ...
Bill Roberton //1975

Pinky and Perky are Ruston 0-4-0 diesel shunters, formerly located on Sunderland South Docks. Mercifully, neither of them is painted pink. ...
Ken Strachan 05/08/2017

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Marley Hill Level Crossing

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The flat crossing at Marley Hill on the Tanfield Railway, looking north east towards Sunnyside in May 2006. The line running left to right was part of ...
John Furnevel 09/05/2006

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Andrews House

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This unusually shaped footbridge crosses the Tanfield Railway just outside Andrews House station. It clearly needs a lick of varnish - just the thing ...
Ken Strachan 05/08/2017

They're so posh on the Tanfield Railway, even the water tanks are double barreled. The coal store reminds me of the children stealing coal in the ...
Ken Strachan 05/08/2017

Robert Stephenson 0-6-0T Twizell (2730/1891) stands at the platform at Andrews House station on the Tanfield Railway on 30 March 2013. See ...
Colin Alexander 30/03/2013

Looking north over Andrews House station on the Tanfield Railway in May 2006. Completed in 1989, the station lies just to the south of Marley Hill ...
John Furnevel 09/05/2006

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Causey Arch

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A reproduction of one of the early horse-drawn wooden wagons once used to transport coal between collieries in western County Durham and the coast. ...
John Furnevel 09/05/2006

The historic Causey Arch on the Tanfield Railway in March 2013. Dating from 1725, it is the world's oldest surviving single arch railway bridge. See ...
Colin Alexander 30/03/2013

The historic Causey Arch in May 2006, seen from alongside the trackbed of the Tanfield Railway. See image 41776 ...
John Furnevel 09/05/2006

The Causey Arch on the Tanfield Railway in August 2012. ...
John Yellowlees 19/08/2012

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East Tanfield Colliery

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East Tanfield

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The southern terminus of the Tanfield Railway at East Tanfield in May 2006, with temporary Portakabins in use and a line of wagons occupying the ...
John Furnevel 09/05/2006

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