(16 Aug 2015, 8:59 pm)MurdnunoC wrote If it was just before where the line split to go towards Stanley (now part of the C2C cycle path), then it probably would have been the site of the old station.

(16 Aug 2015, 9:01 pm)Andreos1 wrote Where the footbridge is, that's more or less where the station was.
There are photos kicking about of other lines in Washington, running down the main road.
Outside what was Columbia Primary School (joined onto the line at Pattison) and also on Bonemill Lane, in front of the community centre.


There is mention of it, on the disused stations site.

Aye there were a few lines. If either of you know Brady Square at all, there used to be street running with steam locos, which ran from in between where the off licence and Salon are at the bottom of the square. 

The site I'm thinking of is just behind the Swan Industrial Estate at Barmston. We used to play football on the fields here, prior to it becoming a fenced off field. The houses between that field and the industrial estate was just waste ground, and there was a small dirt mound that used to border it off. You could get up and over there and straight on to the lines, as the fences and such were non-existent. By that time like, the freight traffic had long gone. All the track was still there, but the area was littered with trenches and smashed open trackside cabinets, where I presume the copper thieves had been at work.

I can't remember any track on the C2C route that passes alongside that field, and also past St Roberts school. It's just been the tarmac cycle track for as long as I've known now. We used to ride as far along as the 'King Coal' statue at Pelton, and then cycle back.