 The Weardale Railway opened in July 2004 |
A cash-starved steam railway which went into administration with debts of about �1m has been saved after a deal was struck with creditors. Weardale Railway went into voluntary administration in January 2005, after just a few months in operation.
Administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers said creditors had agreed to take 25p for every �1 they were owed.
London-based community transport group ECT is to take over the railway's operations in due course.
It is expected the railway will begin services again later this year.
The �5m project opened in July 2004, running trains on a five-mile stretch of restored track.
But the number of passengers fell about 12,000 short of what was expected by the end of its first year.
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