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THE Stanhope & Tyne Railway epitomised the madly optimistic nature of early railway building. With Robert Stephenson and Thomas Elliott Harrison overseeing it, it was constructed in the mid 1830s to ...

Richard Holden MP has said reopening the Derwent Valley Railway in County Durham would be transformational. Credit: LDRS A transport minister has claimed that the reopening of a disused rail line ...

Vanished monuments of a bygone industrial age, it's 45 years since Tyne Dock arches, situated just to the east of Jarrow, were bulldozed into history. There were four of them bridging the main Jarrow ...