The Tanfield Railway is a 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in standard gauge heritage railway in Gateshead and County Durham, England. Running on part of a former horse-drawn colliery wooden waggonway, later rope & horse,
Andrews House Station
Freight train at East Tanfield
Sunniside station before track remodelling and refurbishment.
The Bowes Railway, built by George Stephenson in 1826, is the world's only operational preserved standard gauge cable railway system. It was built to transport coal from pits in Durham to boats on the
The Bowes Railway at Springwell Village, City of Sunderland