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Railways bucking the trend with increase in passengers
8:57am Tuesday 2nd February 2010
IT may have been financial doom and gloom for many organisations last year, but one has bucked the trend.
Heritage railway to resume services after 60-year delay
9:58am Thursday 28th January 2010
DAILY passenger services are returning to a North-East heritage line this summer, nearly 60 years after they were withdrawn.
Small is beautiful, says railway boss
10:03am Thursday 28th January 2010
THE man at the helm of Grand Central Railway said he was surprised at the demise of National Express East Coast and suggested small is beautiful when it comes to connecting with rail travellers.
Photographs are donated to rail group
9:03am Thursday 21st January 2010
HISTORIC photographs of a former railway works have been donated to a railway preservation group.
Cold-blooded killing that shocked region
8:23am Monday 4th January 2010
Seventy years ago, a crime took place that horrified the region – the murder of a blind man by a relative, who was tracked down after a nationwide manhunt. Mark Tallentire reports.
Restoration to begin on disaster lifeboat
5:22pm Tuesday 15th December 2009
A LIFEBOAT involved in a rescue disaster nearly five decades ago was yesterday given shelter from the elements months after it was bought on an internet auction site.
Tombstones turned out to be church's silver lining
5:29pm Tuesday 15th December 2009
MYSTERIOUS symbols have come to light following the discovery of more than 100 medieval tombstones, previously hidden in the walls of a Saxon church.
Tornado steams home
8:41am Thursday 3rd December 2009
TORNADO is to return to its native County Durham next spring for an extended two-week stay.
'It will be a marvel if I get out of this'
12:27pm Wednesday 11th November 2009
As the men who died in the First World War are remembered on Armistice Day, a new book marks the wartime history of the 2nd Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry. Steve Pratt looks at the letters of one soldier from Consett.
The view from East Berlin
12:39pm Tuesday 10th November 2009
In the second part of our series, Jenny Laue, who was born and grew up in East Berlin, speaks to her family about how they felt when their world was changed for ever.
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