Plains Farm, Premier Road, 'Locomotive'

HER Number

11131

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Plains Farm, Premier Road, 'Locomotive'

Place

Plains Farm

Map Sheet

NZ35SE

Class

Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces

Site Type: Broad

Sculpture

Site Type: Specific

Sculpture

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Late 20th Century 1967 to 2000

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

1997 by Lynne Regan. Steel relief sculpture of George Stephenson's first locomotive and coal truck set into a grassed bank. Smoke from the locomotive's chimney is in concrete. Commissioned as part of the Stephenson Trail which runs from Easington Lane to the River Wear in the centre of Sunderland following the Hetton Colliery Railway.

Easting

438400

Northing

554960

Grid Reference

NZ438400554960

Sources

Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 187-188; City of Sunderland, The Stephenson Trail (leaflet 5)