Tyne and Wear HER(2467): South Shields, Railway Spur/Harton Coal Company Railway - Details
2467
S Tyneside
South Shields, Railway Spur/Harton Coal Company Railway
South Shields
NZ36NE
Transport
Railway Transport Site
Railway
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
A Railway Spur connecting Mineral Railway (HER ref. 2427) with the South Shields, Marsden & Whitburn Colliery Railway, (HER ref. 2466). This line was part of the Harton Coal Company Railway and after 1909 served Westoe Colliery. Along with the rest of the system, it was electrified in 1908, a unique step at the time.
3711
6695
NZ37116695
<< HER 2467 >> 2nd edition, Ordnance Survey map, 1898, 6 inch scale, Durham, 4, NW
N.T. Sinclair, & I.S. Carr, 1990, Railways of South Shields, p.17-21