Date: 04/11/2022

The first steps have been taken with a business case to support an extension of the Tyne and Wear Metro to Washington. Transport North East has published the first steps of the business case, for approval by the North East Joint Transport Committee (JTC), for a new Metro connection from Pelaw to South Hylton, via Washington, with new stations proposed in Follingsby, Washington North and Washington South. The business case forecasts that the new Washington Metro Loop will cost 745m to deliver, which includes additional new Metro trains to support extra services on the line. The proposed new line forms part of a wider project to re-open the Leamside Line in full, with work already underway with the development of the new Ferryhill station in County Durham.

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The Leamside line in July 2009, here viewed from a foot crossing, just seems to need a bit of pruning. Well, maybe a second track. View looks East.
Location: Washington
Company: Stanhope and Tyne Railroad
04/07/2009 Ken Strachan

37078+37067 arriving off the Stanhope and Tyne route at Washington South Junction in the late 1970s with a train of iron ore empties from Consett. The train will reverse in Washington sidings before heading south to Redcar, which had replaced Tyne Dock as the ore import terminal from 1974 until final closure of the steelworks in 1980.
Location: Washington South Junction
Company: Stanhope and Tyne Railroad
// Ewan Crawford Collection

Tyne and Wear Metro train at the South Hylton terminus on 18 November.
Location: South Hylton
Company: Penshaw to Sunderland (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway)
18/11/2007 Bill Roberton

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