Durham and Sunderland Railway trackbed
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The photograph on this page of Durham and Sunderland Railway trackbed by Richard Webb as part of the Geograph project.
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Durham and Sunderland Railway trackbed
Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 9 Aug 2016
Now a path between Ryhope and its bypass, this was an early (1836) railway which until taken over by the North Eastern Railway in the 1850s was rope hauled by stationary engines. The engineers who built the line thought that this would be more reliable given the gradients than the locomotives of the age. There is quite a noticeable gradient from here up to Murton.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.862377
Longitude
-1.363876