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Chester Moor, CHESTER LE STREET, DH2 3RQ

The East Coast Main Line passes over the A167 Chester-le-Street to Durham road. The broad footway serves as a cycleway.

The A167 Durham to Chester-le-Street road goes through two tight bends to pass under the East Coast Main Line.

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.

God's kitchen is a restaurant on the site of a former church - adjacent to it (on the left in the picture) is a model shop, 'Model Active' - in what was presumably the church hall. They front on to the A167 (old A1) at Chester Moor.