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New bid to extend Sunderland Metro services to Washington by reopening mothballed rail line
Transport campaigners are launching a new bid to persuade the Government into backing the reopening of a mothballed train line.

Been suggested reopening this line after the beeching cuts of the 1960s. This all sounds good news for freight rail but would be better if there was a way of connecting Sunderland to the East coast mainline and having Washington a train station too for passenger rail.