This line is closed. It was famous for the trains running from Tyne Dock to and from the Consett iron and steel works. Short sections remain open at Washington and Tyne Dock. The works at Consett are now closed.
This line is divided into a number of portions.
This was the junction between the 1858 re-aligned portion of the Stanhope and Tyne Railroad, which crossed the Hownes Gill Viaduct just to the south west, and the 1868 curve to the Lanchester Valley Railway (North Eastern Railway) at Consett South Junction.
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