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Down ECML oil train at Croxdale
View eastward, towards Ferryhill, Darlington and the South. The train is headed by the prototype Raven S3 B16 class 4-6-0, built 12/19 as No. 840 becoming LNER No. 1400 in 1946, then BR No. 61469 in 1949 and eventually withdrawn in 10/60.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 12 Jun 1954
0.01 miles
2
King's Cross - Newcastle express at Croxdale
View eastward, towards Ferryhill, Darlington and the South: NE ECML. Approaching the site of Croxdale station near Durham, the 09.50 from King's Cross is storming along with Gresley A3 4-6-2 No. 60075 'St Frusquin' (built as A1 No. 2574 10/24, rebuilt 6/42, withdrawn 4/63)
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 12 Jun 1954
0.07 miles
3
Rogerson Terrace, Croxdale
Facing onto the A167 (formerly Great North Road, A1).
Image: © Oliver Dixon
Taken: 16 Apr 2007
0.09 miles
4
Former railway to Croxdale colliery
Site of the railway branch from the East Coast Main Line into Croxdale Colliery. The colliery closed in 1934.
Image: © David Robinson
Taken: 9 Mar 2018
0.13 miles
5
Site of Croxdale station, East Coast Main Line, 2000
View NW, towards Durham, Newcastle etc.: ex-NER ECML. No trace is left of the station, which closed on 26/9/38.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 20 Jun 2000
0.15 miles
6
A1 Pacific on Colchester - Newcastle express at Croxdale
View eastward, towards Darlington and the South on the ECML. No. 60146 'Peregrine' (built 4/49, withdrawn 10/65) is on the 07.20 Colchester via Ipswich, Ely, March, Spalding, Lincoln, Doncaster and the ECML, due at Newcastle 15.25.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 12 Jun 1954
0.19 miles
7
Junction of Hett Lane with the A167
Image: © Alexander P Kapp
Taken: 22 Aug 2011
0.20 miles
8
East Coast Main Line near Croxdale
Looking west from the bridge on Hett Lane.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 28 Nov 2015
0.20 miles
9
Hall Lane - Sunderland Bridge
Image: © Anthony Parkes
Taken: 23 Mar 2019
0.21 miles
10
Down ECML express at Croxdale
View eastward at Sunderland Bridge, near the former Croxdale Station on the ex-North Eastern Darlington - Newcastle section of the East Coast Main Line. The train is the 10.05 King's Cross - Edinburgh - Glasgow express, headed by A1 Pacific No. 60129 'Guy Mannering'.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 12 Jun 1954
0.22 miles