Despite being some distance from the harbour itself this location

is named as such! 66601 ‘The Hope Valley’ waits at Tarmac’s Seaham Harbour facility to leave with the 14.47 empty cement wagons train to Oxwellmains cement works just south of Dunbar. This photograph is taken from a footpath that runs adjacent to the long siding that diverges from the Durham coast route at Dawdon Junction and is that remains of a number of industrial lines that served the now closed collieries and the coking plant that once were significant employers in the area. Like so much of the traditional industries of this part of the country, nearly all have closed and have been pysically erased from the landscape but their heritage lives on.