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Sheelin Avenue, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 3DZ

Looking in the other direction from the spot where Image was taken, as the track runs through a shallow cutting. In the background, in Image, is the bridge carryig the road to The Hermitage, and houses on Carrowmore Road.

Taken just after Image, as the anniversary journey runs through the cutting shown in Image This shows the bridge more clearly, together with the terrace seen in Image Black and white image from a colour slide.

There is an Ordnance Survey benchmark Image on the right hand wall pier

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark levelled at 34.305m above Newlyn Datum verified 1964

The location is, clearly enough, beside the County Durham town of Chester-le-Street. The blue and yellow road sign is in a style commonly found in the county.

A service crosses the viaduct south of Chester-le-Street, spanning Southburn Dene just north of the railway bridge shown in http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=39378269 . That looks like a Sulzer type 4 locomotive. The 8-arched viaduct dates from 1868 http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=109372&mode=adv ; the stone plinths can be seen below. The dene is more wooded these days. The South Burn joins the Wear less than a kilometre away, to the left.

The locomotive, number 4472, celebrates the 40th anniversary of its first non-stop run from Kings Cross to Edinburgh on 1st May 1928 by repeating the journey, after its rescue from the breaker's yard and restoration by Alan Pegler. Here it crosses the viaduct shown in Image On the right is a glimpse of Moor Cottage, a house beside the A167. Black and white image from a colour slide.

From the same spot as Image] and Image], and mainly included because it shows that the Dene above the viaduct was then clothed in low trees and scrub rather than mature trees, as now. Thanks to Mark Abbott for letting me know that in front of the Class 24 Locomotive is a brake tender. Black and white image from a colour slide.

I think this freight train is being hauled by an English Electric type 4 locomotive; open to correction. The viaduct is also shown in Image On the right is Moor Cottage, a house beside the A167, together with an adjacent field above the Dene. Black and white image from a colour slide.

Ordnance Survey documents indicate that a benchmark levelled at 33.674m above Newlyn Datum was verified in 1964 on the wall, now covered with ivy, on the left hand side of the verge