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    The Leamside Line, originally part of the Durham Junction Railway, is a disused railway line, located in the North East of England. The alignment diverges...
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    proposed using money that had been planned for High Speed 2 to re-open the Leamside line, estimated to cost close to £2 billion. They later said that the combined...
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    overgrown site is on the disused Leamside Line which connected Durham and Sunderland via the town to Newcastle. The line was lifted and mothballed by Network...
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    of proposals looking in to the possibility of re-opening the former Leamside line to Washington, including a 2009 report from the Association of Train...
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    1835 to 1963, initially on the Stanhope & Tyne Railway and later the Leamside line. The first station in Washington was opened on 16 April 1835 as an intermediate...
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    boundaries, it was served by a branch from Belmont on the Leamside Line, then the main line from London to Newcastle. Passenger services finished in 1857...
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    village of Penshaw, Tyne and Wear, England from 1840 to 1964 on the Leamside line. The first Penshaw station was opened on 9 March 1840 by the Durham...
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    Conner, Rachel (20 December 2017). "Questions raised over future of Leamside line". The Northern Echo. Archived from the original on 10 April 2020. Retrieved...
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    also predominately double track), leading to proposals to reopen the Leamside line to passenger and freight traffic. Railway operations are vulnerable...
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    village of Fencehouses, Tyne and Wear, England from 1841 to 1964 on the Leamside line. The station was opened in August 1841 by the Durham Junction Railway...
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  • The East Coast Main Line is a major trunk railway in the United Kingdom, linking London with Edinburgh. A detailed diagram of the line is housed on this...
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    six trains per hour on the East Coast Main Line could be removed by re-opening the mothballed Leamside line. it is important that connectivity is improved...
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    take the Team Valley line to Newcastle. The old main line, the Leamside Line to Pelaw, has been closed since the present main line was electrified in 1991...
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    proposed Tyne and Wear Metro Washington extension would use the viaduct. Leamside line In The Theory, Practice, and Architecture of Bridges of Stone, Iron...
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    1838, was the crowning achievement of the Leamside Line, then carrying what was to become the East Coast Main Line. A mile to the east is Penshaw Monument...
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  • interchange due to its proximity to both the East Coast Main Line, the mothballed Leamside Line and the A1(M) motorway. Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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    Knitsley Lanchester Witton Gilbert Aldin Grange for Bearpark Leamside line Fencehouses Leamside Frankland Belmont (Durham) Durham (Gilesgate) Sherburn Colliery...
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    railway station was a station on the Clarence Railway's North Shore Branch Line. It served the market town of Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham, England...
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    parish of West Rainton and Leamside, in County Durham, England. It is situated between Durham and Houghton-le-Spring. Leamside is about one-half mile (0...
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  • far as Washington, where the York Newcastle and Berwick Railway (the "Leamside Line") diverged left. It remained open until the same year, but from Washington...
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    freight between Shildon and Stillington via Newton Aycliffe in 1963. The line remains open for freight only. Herapath's Railway Magazine, Commercial Journal...
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    The Durham Coast Line is an approximately 39.5-mile (63.6 km) railway line running between Newcastle and Middlesbrough in North East England. Heavy rail...
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  • The Durham–Sunderland line was a railway line in the North East of England. The line no longer exists, but many features along its path are still visible...
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    Yarm Depots railway station was a railway station on a short branch line on the original route of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR), which served...
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    railway lines (both of which are now closed). It was served by the Leamside Line and Durham and Sunderland Railway. There were stations at Hetton and...
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    station was built by the Hartlepool Dock & Railway as a stop on their main line between Hartlepool and Haswell but, under its successors, would later become...
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    Next bridge upstream River Wear Next bridge downstream Chartershaugh Bridge  A182  Penshaw Bridge Grid reference NZ312540 Victoria Viaduct Leamside Line...
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    Leamside railway station served the villages of Leamside and West Rainton, in County Durham, England from 1844 to 1953 on the Leamside line. The first...
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    railway was opened and this line later became the direct line to the coast from Newcastle upon Tyne, although at that time the line terminated in Carliol Square...
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    the village of Usworth, Washington, England from 1864 to 1963 on the Leamside line. The station was opened in May 1864 by the North Eastern Railway. The...
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