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Wearhead Extension (North Eastern Railway)

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

Stanhope

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Leaving Stanhope heading west there is a local back road, that heads to Broomlee and Dandry Shield, which crosses the railway at Crag Nook. Just west ...
David Pesterfield 11/08/2020

Stanhope station, closed in 1953, has been magnificently restored for County Durham's heritage Weardale Railway. This scene is on the afternoon of ...
David Bosher 11/05/2019

UK Railtours' excursion from London Kings Cross just arrived at Stanhope station, the current terminus of the Weardale Railway in County Durham, on ...
David Bosher 11/05/2019

Immediately beyond Stanhope station west end limit and the run round head-shunt is an accommodation vehicle level crossing, giving access to ...
David Pesterfield 11/08/2020

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Eastgate

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View west along the partially overgrown track of the Weardale Railway at Eastgate, near the extremity of the line running from Bishop Auckland. The ...
David Pesterfield 11/08/2020

View east along the overgrown track of the Weardale Railway at Eastgate, near the extremity of the line running from Bishop Auckland. The now ...
David Pesterfield 11/08/2020

The RCTS North Eastern No 2 Rail Tour of 10 April 1965 passing Eastgate station on the Wearhead branch. The locomotive is no 3442 The Great ...
K A Gray 10/04/1965

View over Eastgate station (now a private house) in May 2006 looking back along the Weardale branch towards Bishop Auckland. The station, on what was ...
John Furnevel 12/05/2006

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Westgate-in-Weardale

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The solum of the former section of line beyond the old Eastgate cement works, is still easily discerned from a local road, between Dandry Shield and ...
David Pesterfield 11/08/2020

The solum of the long closed section of the Weardale line, that extended beyond the now demolished Eastgate cement works to Wearhead terminus, is ...
David Pesterfield 11/08/2020

A view east from the road bridge that once crossed the railway at Westgate-in-Weardale, photographed on 19 March 2015. The station house is on the ...
John McIntyre 19/03/2015

Scene at Westgate-in-Weardale on 10 April 1965 with the RCTS North Eastern No 2 Rail Tour at the platform. Gresley K4 2-6-0 no 3442 The ...
K A Gray 10/04/1965

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St Johns Chapel

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In active service, as sheep shelters, some 60 years or so after withdrawal. At 1650ft, by the road from St Johns Chapel in Weardale to Langdon Beck in ...
Brian Taylor 03/03/2013

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Wearhead

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Wearhead Extension (North Eastern Railway)

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Stanhope

Eastgate

Westgate-in-Weardale

St Johns Chapel

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