(02 Apr 2016, 9:55 pm)FAndreos1 wrote Dunno who owns it.

Racking my brains to try and think about the road network down there years ago, prior to that section of the Western Bypass being built.
Struggling.
I am guessing that road extended to the western side of Chowdene Bridge at some point though.

There is a stop on the road now, more or less parallel to this old shelter.

Appreciate we are going off topic, but was there a pit down there?
I can remember the NCB building on the site where Sainsburys is, but wasn't aware of anything else that far down.

Not entirely sure, there may have been infrastructure around to support it. A quick look at Durham coalfields brings up an awful lot

www.durhamrecordoffice.org.uk/Pages/AdvancedSearchDurhamCollieriesResults.aspx?SearchType=Param&SearchID=f2896b30-7c3d-46e5-b647-9da0a9a493fb

Its intriguing as I'm not sure where that road would go, a link to Smithy Lane perhaps but the railway has been there a lot longer I'd assume so it must have gone around or over it