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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

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