South Hetton Railway
Introduction
The photograph on this page of South Hetton Railway by Richard Webb as part of the Geograph project.
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South Hetton Railway
Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 9 Aug 2016
A dip in the trackbed. Embankments were often built with lower quality coal and in the Winter of 1984-85 striking miners dug into disused railways to find coal for heating. There are numerous bits of missing embankment on the South Hetton railway.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.781437
Longitude
-1.40495