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Alan Young
Looking east towards Boldon Colliery station c1971. The section of the Tyne Dock to Consett line from Pontop Crossing (just east of Boldon Colliery) to Washington was the first part of the old East Coast Main Line route to be closed. At that time the steel works at Consett was in production, and iron ore trains were diverted through Boldon Colliery. One of these is headed here by a Sulzer diesel.
Photo by Brian Attewell from his Washington Imaging web site
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