Killingworth Station, on the NER (SMR 1063). 2nd edn OS Mapping shows expansion of sidings at the Station.

This waggonway ran north from West Moor Pit in Killingworth to Burradon Colliery which was owned by Lord Ravensworth and Partners. It was opened in 1820 following the winning of the colliery’s two shafts in that year.

During archaeological investigations in 2018 the possible wagonway footings composed of dressed sandstone blocks and a tie-plate were recorded in addition to loose yellow dolomite chippings. In 2019, during archaeological monitoring at Killingworth Town Park features associated with the wagonway were recorded. These included a wall footing interpretated as being the remains of a former colliery building and two drainage ditches one of which contained a timber sleeper.

Burradon Colliery. The colliery as depicted on 1st edn OS mapping includes two brick fields and a Clay Pit. The colliery was served by a Wagonway (HER 1080). 2nd edn mapping shows expansion of Colliery buildings, spoil heaps and internal wagonway system. Burradon Colliery opened in 1820 and closed in 1975. It was opened by Lord Ravensworth & Partners, then from 1849, Charles Carr and Company, who also owned Seghill. In 1856 Joseph Straker owned the colliery, then in 1860 Joshua Bower of Hunslet near Leeds. It became part of the Coxlodge and Burradon Coal Company. In 1873 Burradon Colliery was owned by Nathaniel Lambert, Greene and Company, which also owned Coxlodge, Bebside and Choppington Collieries. In 1929 the owners were Hoziers & Burradon Coal Co and from 1947 The National Coal Board.
An explosion on 2 March 1860 killed 76 people, including 3 leaders of the Miners Provident Association, William Urwin, George Maddox and William Anderson. The inquest led by Coroner Stephen Reed was attended by Matthias Dunn, the first Mines Inspector, James Mather philanthropist and miners' sympathiser and James Baxter Langley, editor of Newcastle Daily Chronicle. The disaster made national news and 25,000 people supposedly visited Burradon on the Sunday after the explosion. Afterwards a larger ventilating furnace was built. A memorial of a pit wheel has been erected. When it closed in 1975, Burradon was the NCB's oldest mine. The colliery village was divided into two parts by a mineral railway and a short length of the Newcastle to Bedlington turnpike. The part to the north of the railway was called Burradon and was the major component of Burradon township. The southern section was known as Camperdown or Hazelrigge (not to be confused with Hazlerigg near Wideopen) and was partly in Killingworth, partly in Weetslade townships. There were about 200 houses in Burradon and 150 in Hazelrigge, none of them of a very high standard. Nearest to the pit, in Burradon proper, was a row about 300 yards long, made up of houses of the one room and a garret size. The roofs were slate and the garrets unceiled, and the pantries projected behind. The houses were in good repair inside, but very damp. Police Row, next to the turnpike, was a row without back doors, although it was not a back-to-back row. There were two or three new rows, "very nice and neat", Each house in these rows had a room about seventeen or eighteen feet square, the wooden floor raised a few inches above ground level to reduce damp, with a pantry and wash-house on the ground floor. Up the ladder was a ceiled room with a fireplace. In Camperdown the majority of houses were back-to-back. On each side of the rows were houses with one room and an attic, the latter unceiled and reached by a ladder. Most of them had projecting pantries added in 1873. Sanitation was poor due to the shortage of privies. Only the new rows in Burradon had them. The sole water supply for the village throughout the decade was a series of wells. These were all liable to contamination from surface drainage containing sewage matter, and at intervals outbreaks of enteric fever were traced to this cause. Towards the end of the decade the Sanitary Authority began to take action to have these wells cleaned out and protected with covers and drains. There were two chapels in the village. The colliery school belonged to the miners. Financial support came from the colliery owners and partly from compulsory contributions from the miners of 6d a fortnight from married men and 3d a forthnight from single men and from boys who were eligible to attend the night-school. On average there were 164 children in attendance. A building, almost certainly that in which the school was held, labelled 'Burradon Educational School' and dated 1861, still stands in the village. The newsroom and small library attached to the school had only thirty members. Other village amenities were a flourishing branch of Cramlington Co-operative Store and four public houses, all in the Hazelrigge section {3}.

Fawdon Wagonway. Tomlinson records that a Mr Thompson put a complex of fixed engines on this line between the Kenton Bank and Hotchpudding planes, a distance of one mile and three furlongs. The engines allowed the coal wagons to be conveyed over undulating countryside at the rate of seven miles an hour. It worked until 1826 when a new line to the Tyne at Whitehill Point was built (Brunton and Shields Wagonway, later Seaton Burn Wagonway - joins the Fawdon line at NZ 2481 7243). The Fawdon and Seatonburn Wagonways were used in the 1890s as the base for the Fawdon Railway, along with the Coxlodge Wagonway. This formed a loop from Gosforth Colliery to the Tyne Staiths and was built by the Burradon and Coxlodge Coal Co. Section between Fawdon and Brunton closed in 1850. By 1860 with Wideopen, Fawdon and Brunton closed the line had been reduced but was reused once more when Dinnington Colliery was opened in 1867.

Wideopen Colliery, with a shaft marked on the main site and a tunnel and shaft to the north west at NZ 2433 5730, which probably make up the secondary access to the mine. Begun in 1825, the first coals were drawn in 1827, initial sinking was 80 fathoms to the High Main. It was linked to the Brunton and Shields Wagonway. The site was described by T H Hair in 1844 as having workshops, a saw mill and a "recently constructed" gasometer to provide gas to light the screens at night. The mine had three shafts, two coal drawing and one pumping. It was worked in 1844 by Messrs Perkins and Thackrah. Hair's illustration shows corves on waste heaps, wooden headstocks, covered-in screens and a vertical pumping engine house. BGS marks the shaft locations of the A and B pits. The site is now a motor scrap-yard, the site boundary is clearly discernible. Closed 1860.
Remains of a winding house were revealed during an excavation in 2015 by NAA.

Dudley Colliery Institute.

Two Quarries in Burradon, marked "Old" on 2nd edn OS mapping.

Smithy at Burradon shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map.

A post medieval quarry is visible as earthworks on historical air photos and on lidar imagery. This quarry is next to Burradon House and is depicted on the Ordnance Survey map of 1864, although not yet at its largest extent. The overall workings cover as an area of approximately 1.8 hectares.

Annitsford Station, Dudley.