Sunderland Empire Travel and Map – Car Parks, Bus and Rail

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Welcome to the Old Millfield Railway Station 🚂 Long ago before the era of the Metro, Millfield Station started off as a stop on the old Sunderland Durham line Eastwards, which would pass through South Hylton, Cox Green and combine with the Leamside Lane Southbound The government have now announced plans to revive the entire leamside line, not only as a Metro link to Pelaw and Washington, but to reduce rail congestion on the East Coast Mainland. Could we see Sunderland to Durham services again?

Welcome to Sunderland and the North East Coast in the Ice Age: What you see here is Lake Wear, the name of the glacial lake the River Wear flowed into converging with the Tyne, boxed in from the sea by Ice sheets. At this point in history the River Wear flowed primarily north from Chester-le-Street over the route of the River Team in Gateshead and into the Tyne, flooding the expanse of the lake. What would become the River's eastward route through Sunderland would form later after a glacier bloc