Plains Farm, Premier Road, 'Locomotive'

HER Number:
11131

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Plains Farm, Premier Road, 'Locomotive'

Place:
Plains Farm

Map Sheet:
NZ35SE

Class:
Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces

Site Type: Broad:
Street Furniture

Site Type: Specific:
Sculpture

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
1997 by Lynne Regan. Steel relief sculpture of George Stephenson's first locomotive and coal truck set into a grassed bank. Smoke from the locomotive's chimney is in concrete. Commissioned as part of the Stephenson Trail which runs from Easington Lane to the River Wear in the centre of Sunderland following the Hetton Colliery Railway.

Easting:
3840

Northing:
5496

Grid Reference:
NZ38405496

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 187-188; City of Sunderland, The Stephenson Trail (leaflet 5)