Gateshead Park to Saltmeadows Way
Gateshead Park to Saltmeadows Way
HER Number
17085
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Gateshead Park to Saltmeadows Way
Place
Gateshead
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Transport
Site Type: Broad
Tramway Transport Site
Site Type: Specific
Wagonway
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Stuart 1603 to 1714
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
A short line to a pit in Gateshead Park, it was in use by 1660 and a version was still present in 1787 on Gibson's map of the coalfield of 1787.
Easting
427010
Northing
563320
Grid Reference
NZ427010563320
Sources
Alan Williams Archaeology, 2013, Waggonways to the South Bank of the River Tyne and to the River Wear no. 31; Turnbull, L, 2012, Railways Before George Stephenson (entry 48) p158, 169; TWAS: Bell/2/155; Bennett et al 1990, A Fighting Trade - Rail Transport in Tyne Coal 1600-1800, vol 1: 156, vol 2: 4; Gibson's Map of Coalfield 1787