North Shields, Collingwood Main Waggonway

HER Number:
15335

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
North Shields, Collingwood Main Waggonway

Place:
North Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Tramway

Site Type: Specific:
Wagonway

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
This waggonway ran from Collingwood (or Burdon) Main Pit to staiths at North Shields. Parts of the abandoned Chirton Colliery were opened up in 1811 to re-work the High Main Seam. At the same time, Collingwood Main Pit was sunk towards the south-west end of the colliery and a waggonway constructed from it to staiths at North Shields. These were in the same location as those of the earlier Chirton Waggonway. They are shown on Watson 21/21, branching and running to two spouts beyond a coal yard. The staiths are also shown on Wood’s 1827 plan of North Shields in a different arrangement. The rest of the line is shown on Watson 21/15. Later, a branch-line was run to Collingwood Main Waggonway from Hopewell Pit to the north.

Easting:
3474

Northing:
6797

Grid Reference:
NZ34746797

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Alan Williams Archaeology, July 2012, Waggonways North of the River Tyne - Tyne and Wear HER Enhancement Project; North East Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineering, Watson 21/21, Plan of Chirton Quayside. Not dated; Watson 21/15, Plan of Chirton Colliery, property of Edward Collingwood, John Liddell, Ralph Milbank, Duke of Northumberland etc. 1811; Wood, 1827, Plan of North Shields; DS Timoney, 1982, Waggonways of Tyne and Wear - unpublished typescript for Tyne and Wear County Council, p 97 (rioute 38); Les Turnbull, 2012, Railways Before George Stephenson (route 9B)