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The first stage of the trip was on foot
which I haven't included here. It was a three mile local walk where a number
of old railways intersected with roads. For almost all of them, all the rails
and sleepers have been removed, in most cases during the Beeching cuts of the
1960's. After that, I took "Hope" out to search further afield.
These photos I have included here. |
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The first stop was at Sherburn Village. Here, the Lambton Railway comes North West from Sherburn House Colliery, passed through a goods yard connected to Sherburn Colliery and joins the North Eastern Railway just a little further North. The first picture, taken on the edge of the main road, looks North West towards the goods yard and colliery. I forgot to take a shot the other way, so have added a Google street view image. |
150 yards to the West is a road bridge over what was the North Eastern Railway and Sherburn Colliery Station. Where the Jeep is parked, there is a path down to the station platforms below. The station building was located at street level, where the cream building is. Photos of the station can be found here - disused-stations.org.uk - sherburn_colliery | Standing on the road bridge, looking down on the North Eastern Railway, looking each way along the line. The platforms were located to the South of the road bridge, while there was a signal box on the other side of the bridge, on the left side looking North. | Around a third of a mile further West along the road, the Sherburn House branch line cuts across the B1283 road. |
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It was another three quarter mile drive, along two sides of a triangle, before I encountered the Sherburn branch again at Sherburn House Station. The station featured a curved platform below road height. The road passed over the railway via a bridge. The original station can be found here -
disused-stations.org.uk
- sherburn_house/ |
I followed the road another half a mile through Sherburn House village, to the road junction with the A181. Just passed the junction, the North Eastern Railway's Leamside Line crosses the A181. The bridge is still there, though the tracks were removed sometime between 2008 and 2014. | I turned right at the bridge junction onto the A181 and headed West for a quarter of a mile. There I crossed the line that headed South to Cassop village. | A junction a short distance away took me down a country lane, where I crossed the Cassop line once again. To the North, it is a public footpath, following the old line back to where I'd just been. |
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Following the small lane, I eventually caught up with the North Eastern Railway's Leamside main line at a crossing where the rails are still in place. This was my last railway stop. Beyond this point was a private road to a farm, but I'd visited all the locations on my planned tour. |
I headed back to Sherburn Village and then along the lane I stopped at earlier in the year for the sun set photos. With "Hope" being in RAF markings for a change, it was another opportunity for a photo stop. As I headed back through High Pittington, I saw a couple of possibly university students, fumbling to get their phones out for a picture of the Jeep. I pulled over and chatted with them for around 15 minutes before finishing my trip home. | ||
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Research via Public Footpaths via - https://maps.durham.gov.uk Old Stations - http://www.disused-stations.org.uk Old Maps of Durham - https://www.oldmapsonline.org |
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