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Walking tours guide Ian Mole takes us on a journey into the rail landscape of Sunderland's past. He remembers stations that are long gone from the landscape, and others that survive in different forms. Watch the full feature on www.shotstv.com - Freeview channel 262.

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00:00Hello, my name is Ian Moll. I'm the guide for a number of walking tours around Sunderland.

00:04Today I want to talk about the railway history of Sunderland.

00:08Monk Weymouth Station was constructed in 1848, and that was the grandest and the most important station in the town.

00:14In 1964 there was huge closure of existing railway lines, the Dr Beeching plans.

00:20Thousands of miles of track was closed.

00:22This bridge used to go across a railway line here that joined up with the line to Durham going in this direction.

00:30In 2005 there was a number of people who had been trying to have a sailboat in 1848.

00:34I wanted to run a sailboat in 1855, so I went to bring her a sailboat in 1855.

00:39This is the end of the year where we hold the railway station.

00:44I wanted to be a sailboat in 1955, and that's why I wanted to be a sailboat in 1855.

00:48I wanted to come to arrive at the sailboat in 1922.

00:51In 1922 I wanted to be able to be able to get a sailboat in 1855.

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