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...

proposed using money that had been planned for High Speed 2 to re-open the Leamside line, estimated to cost close to £2 billion. They later said that the combined...

of proposals looking in to the possibility of re-opening the former Leamside line to Washington, including a 2009 report from the Association of Train...

1835 to 1963, initially on the Stanhope & Tyne Railway and later the Leamside line. The first station in Washington was opened on 16 April 1835 as an intermediate...

overgrown site is on the disused Leamside Line which connected Durham and Sunderland via the town to Newcastle. The line was lifted and mothballed by Network...

also predominately double track), leading to proposals to reopen the Leamside line to passenger and freight traffic. Railway operations are vulnerable...

Conner, Rachel (20 December 2017). "Questions raised over future of Leamside line". The Northern Echo. Archived from the original on 10 April 2020. Retrieved...

boundaries, it was served by a branch from Belmont on the Leamside Line, then the main line from London to Newcastle. Passenger services finished in 1857...

interchange due to its proximity to both the East Coast Main Line, the mothballed Leamside Line and the A1(M) motorway. Wikimedia Commons has media related...

The East Coast Main Line is a major trunk railway in the United Kingdom, linking London with Edinburgh. A detailed diagram of the line is housed on this...