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Birtley to Causey – 1 February 2025

At Causey Arch, you can walk underneath the arches or walk across the top of them. Either way, you are under or on the oldest surviving single-arch railway bridge in the world. The bridge was built in one year between 1725 and 1726. Horse-drawn carts using wooden tracks hauled coal to the River Tyne and pulled the empty carts back again. Over 900 carts would make the crossing every day until about 1739 when Tanfield Colliery was destroyed by fire.

Causey Arch is towards the end of all three planned routes. These routes are 11 miles, 10 miles and 9 miles. They all start to the east of Causey close to the A1 road in Birtley and all the routes head more or less westwards towards Causey and the Tanfield Railway. From Causey Arch, all three routes follow the railway line south towards East Tanfield Station and then roughly eastwards towards the A6076 road and the finish at the South Causey Inn.

The club has never completed these routes before so you have an open choice on which one to do. But if you would like to come out with us you can get in touch from our Contact Page, and you can also download the walk descriptions below and the GPS routes here.

As we have no previous images from the routes the image for this post was taken on our last walk this year on the way from Wooler to Belford.

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