Tanfield Railway

Tanfield Railway, Marley Hill Engine Shed
Old Marley Hill, Gateshead, NE16 5ET
Last visited 8th March 2015
Free to look around but event days are not.
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The Tanfield Railway is a standard gauge heritage railway in Gateshead and County Durham, England. Running on part of a former colliery wooden wagonway, later a steam railway, it operates preserved industrial diesel and steam tank locomotives.
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The railway operates a passenger service on Sundays all year round, as well as demonstration freight trains. The line runs 3 miles (4.8 km) between a southern terminus at East Tanfield, Durham, to a northern terminus at Sunniside, Gateshead, with the main station, Andrews House situated near to the Marley Hill engine shed.
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A halt also serves the historic site of the Causey Arch. The railway claims to be the oldest working railway in the world.
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The current preserved line passes near to Causey Arch, the oldest surviving railway bridge in the world. It was built to carry a new branch from the route of the now preserved line, to a site known as Dawson's Drift. Built between 1725 and 1727, at 150 ft long (46 m) and 80 ft high (24 m), it was the largest single-span bridge in Britain, and remained so for 30 years.



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View more of my pictures HERE


Also... Nice walks underneath Causey Arch Bridge.


To view future events visit the Tanfield Railway website HERE