<b>Eastgate: approaching former station,  1995.</b><br>
View NW across a temporarily closed bridge over the River Wear, to the ex-NER Bishop Auckland (to left) - Wearhead (to right) line. Eastgate station and the service to Wearhead closed to passengers from 29/6/53, but goods continued until 1961, to Westgate until 1/7/68 and (for cement) from Eastgate until 17/3/93. The line was mothballed until 2004, then acquired as a heritage operation by the Weardale Railway for progressive restoration.
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