Wagonway linked to Elemore Colliery, (SMR 3230), probably for removing waste.

The Rainton Meadows branch of the North Eastern Railway, largely lies outside Tyne and Wear.

Morton Pit (Coal).

Railway, marked as Old on the 1st edition OS mapping, so probably out of use by 1857. May have been part of an earlier line of the Londonderry Railway, (SMR 3180).

Waggonway shown on a plan of 1777 surveyed for the Dean and Chapter of Durham by J.C. Mowbray (NRO 578/321). The land was in the ownership of Mr Maskell. Linked Nicholson's Pit (HER 3201) to the Wear. Also shown on a late eighteenth century plan of Rainton Colliery Grounds (NRO 3410 Wat 34/18) and on Greenwood's 1820 map. With the opening of the Rainton to Seaham Railway in 1831 the waggonway would have lapsed. The route is later shown as a railway spur from the Londonderry Railway (HER 3180) to Chilton Moor Brick Field (HER 3182).

The Sunderland to Stockton Toll Road. The northern end of this road is unclear on the 1st edition OS mapping, it has been recorded as if it runs south from the Wearmouth Bridge, (SMR 2739). It crossed Barley Mow Bridge, (SMR 3617), had a Toll House at Ryhope Bar, (SMR 2948), and left the county where it crossed Ryhope Dene.

In 1812, John Nesham built a new six miles long iron-railway to carry coal from his Newbottle Colliery, across East Herrington and to coal spouts emptying directly into collier brigs at Galleys Gill in Sunderland, avoiding transhipment on to keels. Initially operated solely with horses, in 1814, the railway was the scene of experimentation with locomotive engines. William Brunton’s Iron Horse was used to pull coal on a gradient between the Margaret Pit and West Herrington. In 1815, the boiler of the locomotive exploded, killing 16 people and seriously injuring 40; the world’s first major railway disaster. By 1819, engineered inclined-planes (four) and stationary engines (three) were the main motive power on the line, propelling rope-hauled coal waggons. Nesham sold the concern in 1822 to John Lambton, from which time it was known as the Lambton Railway. From 1833 it was called the Earl of Durham’s Railway. The early form of the railway is shown in detail on a map of 1817 held at Sunderland Museum. Possibly associated with engine HER 3146.

The Barley Mow Bridge carried the Sunderland to Stockton road, (SMR 3619), over Hendon Burn.

Steam Mill (Corn).

Gas Works, possibly associated with the adjacent Houghton Colliery, (HER 3166). The gas works were established by Houghton-le-Spring District Gas Company in 1833 to supply Houghton, Newbottle and East Rainton with gas for street lighting. In 1856 it produced 15000 cubic feet of gas a day supplying 36 public lamps at £2 each per annum and supplying the colliery, churches, chapels etc in town at 4s 6d per 1000 cublic feet. E.D. Welford was the treasurer and managing director in 1856 along with Thomas Hewitson, secretary. The remains of the gasworks were encountered during a watching-brief in 2019 before the site was redeveloped.
The OS map of 1857 shows the main gasworks building, which would have held the retort house, workshop, coal store and fitters shop. The map also depicts a small gasholder C and a circular tar tank.
By 1891 a linear extension had been added to the west side of the original building and two new gasholders A and B had been built. The linear building comprised the meter house, station governor, volumetric governor, livesey washer, purifier house and lime shed. The 'holy well' (HER 270) east of the gasworks could have provided the water.
By 1919 another larger gasholder 1 had been built in the south-west part of the site and a small office building.
Gasholders A, B and C do not appear on maps after 1920.
By 1939 large gasholder 2 had been added in the south-east part of the site.
By 1974 gasholders 1 and 2 had been removed and the site became a depot. By 1992 the original gasworks building had been demolished.