Railway near Witton Park
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Railway near Witton Park
Image: © Trevor Littlewood Taken: 18 Sep 2012
The railway route running from Bishop Auckland into Weardale was used for freight traffic into the 1990's although only at that time as a means of transporting cement from the (then) Blue Circle works at Eastgate; road transport then took over. The railway has since seen a new life as a heritage line but now there's an industrial use again; open casted coal is trucked (controversially) to Wolsingham and then transported by this line to the main network via Bishop Auckland. That the line is still in use is shown by the polished state of the rails.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.667662
Longitude
-1.732828