Tanfield Railway

County Durham, England · United Kingdom

Tanfield Railway, United Kingdom
Photo: Stephen Daglish, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Claimed as the world's oldest existing railway, with origins in a wooden wagonway of 1725. It runs steam services over the historic Causey Arch, an early masonry railway bridge.

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