When Sunderland reeled from the rail cutbacks

Scenes like these came to an end with huge changes to Wearside's rail services in 1964

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00:00 60 years ago today, Sunderland Rail users faced this news.

00:06 The services that they had used from Pallion, Hilton, Cox Green, Penshaw, Fence Houses and

00:13 other stations were about to end.

00:16 Britain's rail network was facing huge cuts and it meant an end to scenes like these at

00:22 South Hilton station where passengers were getting off, at Fence Houses where the workers

00:28 were taking in the daily haul of parcels and Penshaw where Terence O'Connor was in the

00:34 signalling box.

00:37 It's a reminder of a time gone by and so is this view of Fence Houses station with Lampton

00:43 Dee colliery behind it.

00:45 Tell us about your memories of wearside before the rail cuts of 1964 by emailing chris.cordner@nationalworld.com

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