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Standard-gauge heritage railway, it's been variously horse-drawn, rope-winched by static steam engines, and from 1881 steam-hauled. On Sundays trains puff 3 miles between East Tanfield and Sunniside, with the main display of locos and rolling stock midway at Marley Hill.
The Tanfield Railway is a 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in standard gauge heritage railway in Gateshead and County Durham, England. It runs on part of a former horse-drawn colliery wooden waggonway, later rope and horse and lastly rope and locomotive railway. It operates preserved industrial steam locomotives. The railway operates a passenger service every Sunday, plus other days, as well as occasional demonstration coal, goods and mixed trains.
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Excellent open-air museum, recreating life in the area from 1820 to the 1950s.