Line of the old railway at Tanfield Lea
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Line of the old railway at Tanfield Lea
Image: © Robert Graham Taken: 24 Jan 2022
This path on the left here, on the east side of the B6173, is on the line of an old colliery railway. It ran between the collieries of White-le-Head and Tanfield Lea and closed in the 1940's. There were no railway engines used - the coal trucks were pulled by a continuous wire rope, operated by gravity, I believe.
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Image Location
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54.883483
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