On this day in 1987, 37 years ago, the last scheduled train passed over Farnley Viaduct, the tight curvature rendering it unsuitable for the overhead electrification equipment being installed between King's Cross and Leeds.
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The trackbed of the Border Counties Railway crosses moorland beyond Kielder, en route to Riccarton.