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Low Etherley
Low
Etherley
is a
village
in
County Durham
, in
England
. It is situated a few
miles
to
the west
of
Bishop Auckland
.
In
1825
the
Stockton and Darlington Railway
opened a
horse-drawn
branch line
, the
Etherley Incline Railway
, from
West Auckland
to
serve
Witton Park Colliery
, north of Etherley. This
line
passed through Low Etherley, where it was worked by a
cable-hauled incline
powered by a
stationary steam engine
.