VICTORIA BRIDGE

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VICTORIA VIADUCT
The Leamside Line crossing The River Wear
Empty Freight Trams heading North towards Washington Station
Hauled by B1 (Antelope Class) Locomotive No. 61022,  Sassaby.   28 August 1964

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The Durham Junction Railway formed a small but important link in the chain of railways from London to the Tyne,
connecting with the Newcastle & Darlington Junction at Rainton and with the Stanhope & Tyne (later Pontop & South Shields)
at Washington.  It was less than five miles long, but in this length included the magnificent Victoria Bridge across the Wear.  
It was so called because of the last stone which was laid on the day of Queen Victoria's coronation in June 1838.

Trains didn't travel over Victoria Viaduct to Newcastle and Edinburgh until 1850 when Queen Victoria opened Newcastle
Central Station.  She'd travelled over the new Darlington-Durham-Newcastle line.  Up until then passengers from the south disembarked at Gateshead.

After 1850, the High Level Bridge opened to passenger trains and, until the Team Valley Railway Line was opened, Victoria
Viaduct was used by all east coast trains between London and Edinburgh.

[ Information from various sources, some unknown ]

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VICTORIA BRIDGE

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FATFIELD BRIDGE   -   VICTORIA BRIDGE