The Durham Coast Line is an approximately 39.5-mile (63.6 km) railway line running between Newcastle and Middlesbrough in North East England. Heavy rail passenger services, predominantly operated Northern Trains, and some freight services operate over the whole length of the line; it provides an important diversionary route at times when the East Coast Main Line is closed. Light rail services of the Tyne and Wear Metro's Green Line also operate over the same tracks between a junction just south of Sunderland station and Pelaw Junction.
Looking south-east along the line towards Horden, as it leaves Seaham.
Londonderry, Seaham & Sunderland Railway No. 21, at the front of what is likely an LS&SR passenger train, during the final years of the line's independence in the 1890s.
The Monkwearmouth Railway Bridge (left) alongside the Wearmouth Road Bridge (right) in Sunderland, seen in 2006.
Horden Viaduct, which carries the line over Castle Eden Dene, in June 2011.
Newcastle railway station
Newcastle station is a railway station in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom. It is located on the East Coast Main Line, around 268 miles (432 km) north of London King's Cross. It is the primary national rail station serving Newcastle upon Tyne and is an interchange for local services provided by the Tyne and Wear Metro network whose Central Station is situated beneath the national rail station. It is the busiest station in Tyne & Wear, as well as the busiest in North East England.
Newcastle railway station
The exterior of the station in 1867.
The trainshed soon after opening.
The eastern approach to the station in 1960, viewed from The Castle
