The Tanfield Railway is a tourist attraction in Gateshead and County Durham, England. It is operating preserved steam and diesel industrial locomotives. The Tanfield Railway traveling is different from any other traveling. The Tanfield Railway is world’s oldest operating railway and it was opened in 1725.
A few steam railways offer the character of scenery and variety, locomotives and rolling stock available here. The Railway operates a passenger service on Sundays all year round. The railway is especially auspicious in the variety of countryside through which it runs. It is a surprise to most people that such beautiful rolling farmland and wooded valleys exist only 7 miles from the centre of Newcastle.
The Tanfield Railway was built to take coal from Stanley and Marley Hill to the River Tyne. This railway currently operates a passenger service on a few miles of track among Sunniside and East Tanfield which calls at Causey Arch. It was constructed to carry a new branch from the route of the now preserved line, to a site known as Dawson's Drift.
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