(16 Apr 2022, 11:46 am)MurdnunoC wrote Can't see the Crook extension happening, to be honest, as the A689 would have to be re-routed away from the railway viaduct it currently uses in Bishop Auckland. Without building another viaduct to cross the wear, traffic would have to use the old route through Toronto.

The rest of the plan is feasible but the Wearhead/Eastgate extension is wheeled out just as much as the the Leamside Line is when the local rags have ran out of things to report about  I would argue it's more likely to happen, certainly between Stanhope and Darlington, but whether it does or not is another thing entirely.

It was the Durham via Hunwick line that used the viaduct, =Crook line went off not far from Etherley Tip, Wear Valley Jn