Gateshead, Tyne Main/Friars Goose Wagonway
Gateshead, Tyne Main/Friars Goose Wagonway
HER Number
3533
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Gateshead, Tyne Main/Friars Goose Wagonway
Place
Gateshead
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
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
Tyne Main Wagonway ran from the two Tyne Main Pits, (SMR numbers 3532 and 3538), to the Tyne Main Staiths, (SMR 3534). Probably followed the line of the earlier Friar's Goose Way, built c.1746 which ran to Friars Goose from a staith on the Saltmeadows frontage of the River Tyne. It is shown on a map of 1747. Gibson's map of the Coalfield of 1787 shows the disused waggonway's staith.
Easting
427450
Northing
563200
Grid Reference
NZ427450563200
Sources
<< HER 3533 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 3
Bennett, G, Clavering, E & Rounding, A, 1989, A Fighting Trade, Vol 1, p 156; Turnbull, L, 2012, Railways Before George Stephenson (entry 47) 160, 169; TWAS Gateshead Park Estate, 1810, DT/Bell/2/155; Alan Williams Archaeology, 2013, Waggonways to the South Bank of the River Tyne and to the River Wear; Gibson's Map of the Coalfield 1787
Bennett, G, Clavering, E & Rounding, A, 1989, A Fighting Trade, Vol 1, p 156; Turnbull, L, 2012, Railways Before George Stephenson (entry 47) 160, 169; TWAS Gateshead Park Estate, 1810, DT/Bell/2/155; Alan Williams Archaeology, 2013, Waggonways to the South Bank of the River Tyne and to the River Wear; Gibson's Map of the Coalfield 1787