Washington Waggonway (Usworth Way to Cox Green)
Washington Waggonway (Usworth Way to Cox Green)
HER Number
2624
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Washington Waggonway (Usworth Way to Cox Green)
Place
Washington
Map Sheet
NZ35NW
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
Washington Wagonway linked Washington Colliery ‘1’ and ‘B’ Pits to the North Eastern Railway, Pontop and South Shields Branch at Victoria Place. On the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, it seems to have a short disused branch to ‘The Old Engine’ (HER ref. 2622), from NZ 3019 5684.
Easting
430020
Northing
557000
Grid Reference
NZ430020557000
Sources
<< HER 2624 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7; Archaeological Services Durham University, 2012, Teal Village Farm, Washington, Tyne and Wear - archaeological evaluation; Turnbull, L, 2012, Railways Before George Stephenson (entry 81) 172; Gibson's Map of Coalfield 1787; Alan Williams Archaeology, 2013, Waggonways to the South Bank of the River Tyne and to the River Wear