Callerton to Scotswood Waggonway

HER Number

15349

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Callerton to Scotswood Waggonway

Place

Callerton

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

Class

Transport

Site Type: Broad

Tramway Transport Site

Site Type: Specific

Wagonway

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

This was a late waggonway, opened by 1827 and is shown on Watson 24/10. It served Callerton Colliery, possibly utilising the staiths on the River Tyne from the disused Fawdon Waggonway. It was managed by William Hedley who developed locomotive steam engines, but who here used stationary engines.

Easting

419120

Northing

569890

Grid Reference

NZ419120569890

Sources

Alan Williams Archaeology, July 2012, Waggonways North of the River Tyne - Tyne and Wear HER Enhancement Project; North East Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineering: NRO/3410/ Watson 24/10: General Map showing the situation of the Tyne Collieries. Not dated but around 1830; Turnbull, L. 2012 Railways Before George Stephenson, route 35A