As the late afternoon sets in the sky a Santa Special train heads for the main station on Tanfield railway, cunningly renamed the "North Pole".
Matthew Murray at the end of the day dropping its fire in the Oldest railway shed in the world.
Tanfield railway was built on a waggonway which had been operating from the beginning of the 18th century. Then one horse would haul a waggon of coal to the river Tyne. Tanfield hauled many wagon... (more)
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The late Derek Knott waits in the cab of locomotive Stagshaw for the signal to return to East Tanfield with a Santa Special train
Tanfield gala day with guest engine 813 raising steam with Cochrane
Sir Cecil A Cochrane sits outside the oldest working railway shed in the world on Tanfield Railway.
Renishaw Ironworks Number 6 departing Andrews House towards East Tanfield.
Renishaw Ironworks Number 6 heading away from Causey Arch on the Tanfield Railway. This is the world's oldest existing railway dating from 1725 when it started as a horse drawn waggonway.
