I was intrigued to see on the OS map a

small section of railway branching off the ECML just north of Stobswood and Widdrington Station so I map read Andy (who was driving) a slightly circuitous route to it. In the middle of nowhere, we came across this section of track and a buffer stop. This was the end of a section of track that had not seen use for quite some time. There was once a large open cast colliery at Widdrington and I believe that this branch last saw use when the area was used by UK Coal as a disposal point. The line leads to the ECML about two miles away in the trees. Note the pole with some old floodlights on it at quite a jaunty angle, this is not the camera lens or my photographic ineptitude but it really is falling over!