Leamside line

Leamside Line
The Victoria Viaduct over the River Wear.
Overview
Status	Closed
Owner	Network Rail
Locale	County Durham Tyne and Wear
Service
Type	Heavy rail
System	National Rail
History
Opened	From 1838
Closed	1964 (to passengers) 1990s (to goods)
Technical
Line length	21 miles (34 km)
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge

Leamside line
Legend
Tyne & Wear Metro (Yellow line) to South Shields Durham Coast Line Newcastle–Sunderland and Tyne & Wear Metro (Green line) Airport & St James–South Hylton Pelaw Metro station Wardley Colliery Pontop & Jarrow Railway to Dipton Colliery Pontop & Jarrow Railway to Jarrow Staithe Follingsby Freightliner Terminal Usworth Stanhope & Tyne Railway to South Shields Washington (2nd station..1850-1963) Stanhope & Tyne Railway to Annfield Plain & Consett Victoria Viaduct over River Wear York, Newcastle & Berwick Railway to Sunderland Penshaw Lambton Railway to Collieries Lambton Railway to Collieries & Lambton Staithes Fencehouses Rainton & Seaham Railway to Collieries & Seaham Harbour Rainton Rainton Crossing Rainton Meadows Leamside Lambton Railway to Collieries Team Valley Line to Gateshead Frankland Belmont Junction (1844–1857) Durham & Sunderland Railway to Sunderland Durham (Gilesgate) (1844–1857) Lambton Railway to Collieries & Lambton Staithes Sherburn House Durham Elvet (1893–1931) Sherburn Colliery Durham (1857– ) Shincliffe Town (1839–1893) Shincliffe Croxdale Coxhoe Byres Green Branch to Bishop Auckland GNEC&HJR to Hartlepool Ferryhill Stillington Line to Stockton East Coast Main Line to York

The Leamside Line, originally part of the Durham Junction Railway, is a disused railway line, located in the North East of England. The alignment diverges from the East Coast Main Line at Tursdale Junction, travelling a distance of 21 miles (34 kilometres) north through the Durham Coalfield and Washington, prior to joining the Durham Coast Line at Pelaw Junction.^[1] The Leamside Line closed to passenger traffic in 1964, under the Beeching cuts.