"Durham station, ECML 2000." View NE on the Up platform, towards Newcastle-on-Tyne and Edinburgh: ex-NER section of the East Coast Main Line, electrified in 1990. Durham had been a busy junction station, for until 5/39 there were branch services to Blackhill via Lanchester, until 10/51 to Waterhouses and until 4/5/64 to/from Bishop Auckland/Sunderland, goods traffic on these branches continuing until the decline of the coal-mines.