Ballast Railway
Ballast Railway
HER Number
2447
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Ballast Railway
Place
South Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Transport
Site Type: Broad
Railway Transport Site
Site Type: Specific
Railway
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
This ballast railway replaced an adjacent line (HER ref. 2349) in the 1830s and appears on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan to be depositing ballast onto the beach below Lawe Bank. It ran through a tunnel from Salmon's Quay and across the site of Arbeia Roman Fort. It closed in 1856.
Easting
436720
Northing
567840
Grid Reference
NZ436720567840
Sources
<< HER 2447 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 4
N.T. Sinclair, & I.S. Carr, 1990, Railways of South Shields, p.4
J.W. Thornborrow, 1964, Excavations in South Shields in 1962, South Shields Archaeology and History Society, Vol II no , p 17
J.W. Thornborrow, 1964, Excavations in South Shields in 1962, South Shields Archaeology and History Society, Vol II no , p 17
N.T. Sinclair, & I.S. Carr, 1990, Railways of South Shields, p.4
J.W. Thornborrow, 1964, Excavations in South Shields in 1962, South Shields Archaeology and History Society, Vol II no , p 17
J.W. Thornborrow, 1964, Excavations in South Shields in 1962, South Shields Archaeology and History Society, Vol II no , p 17