Considered the first railway bridge in the world, the Causey Arch and the Tanfield Railway is an important part of England’s industrial past. By the 1720s, coal mining in northeast England had spread inland, and coal from the collieries had to be transported to keelboats and colliers on the River Tyne. A network of horse-drawn railways called wagonways were designed to link collieries with the main wagonway on the River Tyne. The Tanfield Railway route from Tanfield Colliery in County Durham is thought to be the world’s oldest working railway….
