Lambton's Waggonway to Penshaw Colliery

A long waggonway, running between the Earl of Scarborough’s pits within Lumley Colliery and staiths on the southern bank of the River Wear at Penshaw by 1704 (Turnbull 2012, 163). Various branches were added to the waggonway over the succeeding century. In 1784, the lease to Lumley Colliery was bought by Lord Lambton. In the 1790s, a short branch line was constructed from his colliery at Penshaw. It is shown on Casson’s Map of the Coalfield of 1801.