Sunniside, Pennyfine Gates
Sunniside, Pennyfine Gates
HER Number
16391
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Sunniside, Pennyfine Gates
Place
Sunniside
Map Sheet
NZ25NW
Class
Transport
Site Type: Broad
Railway Transport Site
Site Type: Specific
Level Crossing Gate
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Description
Located where the Tanfield Railway crossed Pennyfine Road. Mr Carr was the gatekeeper in the early 1940s. Gatekeepers were employed by the North Eastern Railway Company. On average 66 sets of wagons went through the Pennyfine Road gates each day, on their way down Baker's Bank. In January 1937 two wagons crashed through the gates.
Easting
421280
Northing
559040
Grid Reference
NZ421280559040
Sources
Sunniside Local History Society, no date, The Crescent & Peter's Gates, Sunniside, www.sunnisidelocalhistorysociety.co.uk/crescent.html