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Pontop Crossing is derived from the Pontop & South Shields Railway. The line was originally opened by the Stanhope & Tyne Railway but it went bust a few years later and was rescued as the P&SSR.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanhope_and_Tyne_Railway
On the subject of the QEB I have built it in 3D in the Trainz 2012 rail simulator. It was hell to do and took about a week mainly based on Google Earth and Britain From Above , see here http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw054629?search=Sunderland&ref=95
Here's a couple of pix of my simulation, not great but the trains run across it OK :lol:
First shows it in Wireframe mode - you copy and paste Google Earth squares onto the ground and use them as a template
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QEB in Trainz Surveyor par PinzaC55, on ipernity
Looking west with a coal train heading for Castletown Junction and Washington. It supposedly carried 6 million tons of coal in the 14 years it was open.

trainz 2014-02-03 21-55-39-68 par PinzaC55, on ipernity
Looking east from the Times Inn. The great thing about the simulator is it allows you to see things you could never have seen in real life!

trainz 2014-02-03 21-55-02-61 par PinzaC55, on ipernity
 


Kevin Arnott's right boot said:
Indeed it is. I remember in the mid 80s watching a programme on ITV when it was interrupted by Annie St John the continuity announcer saying "This is Tyne Tees Television broadcasting from Bilsdale and Pontop Pike, and by gum my earrings are hurting me!" :lol:

Obviously she was practising, or doing a sound check, but it went out all across the region
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Here's my photo of a Class 37 hauling a steel train past Pontop Pike in 1979, the railway has long since been ripped up :cry:

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Class 37 at Pontop Pike, Consett Branch par PinzaC55, on ipernity
 
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