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Friday 24 October 2014

Where's This? - now with answers

A footpath now - but what were the mainstays of this line?
What's the line's connection with TR?
The photos were taken last weekend on the footpath connecting North Sunderland with Seahouses, on the route of the North Sunderland Railway (NSR), which was built in the 1890s to carry fish & people between Seahouses and the NER main line at Chathill.

Armstrong Whitworth 0-4-0 diesel locos similar to our No.2 ran on this line.   At one time we had 3 compartments of a carriage body from NSR No.2, which was also ex GER & SSM&WCR.

The footpath is shown as a railway line
on this section of an 1892 OS map 


This is the only extant bridge I can find
- it goes over the railway
I couldn't take a better photo from the trackbed, because on one side there is an overgrown bog, and the other is an overgrown rubbish tip.   The other road overbridge further up the line has been infilled.   I'm unsure if the bridge over Long Nanny Burn shown on  the map below still exists - anyone care to find out?
The bridge is shown north of Fleetham
on this section of an 1892 OS map 

The NSR is a role model for the Tanfield Railway
- watch the 
Pathe silent newsreel of the NSR 


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