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Monday 20 May 2024
20/05/2024

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Last memento arriving…

At four miles long and a 15-minute journey time, it was hardly full steam ahead on what was one of Northumberland’s smallest railway lines. The link from Seahouses to North Sunderland and then Chathill on the main line of the North Eastern Railway between Morpeth and Berwick, was always cash-strapped. The privately-financed track opened in …

Full steam ahead for iconic workshop

The multi-million-pound conversion of an historic engineer’s workshop into a centre for businesses has been completed in Newcastle. The Pattern Shop, behind Central Station, is where Robert Stephenson built and exported steam engines all around the world, putting it at the heart of the industrial revolution in the late 1800s. When it fell empty in …

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