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The world’s oldest surviving single arch railway bridge stands high above a wooded gorge. The arch spans over 100ft, stands 80ft tall and beneath it runs Causey Burn. If you stand under the archway it sounds as though the water is running above your head! Ralph Wood, a local master mason, built the arch in 1725-26 to link Tanfield collieries with the main waggonway on the River Tyne. He didn’t have much faith in his own work; tradition reports that he was so worried the bridge would collapse he jumped to his death from it before it was even completed. Throughout the site there is evidence of its railway past; a replica of an 18th century coal wagon, a concrete bollard marking the former location of Bobgins pumping engine and a series of panels explaining the early wagonways.
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