Tyne and Wear HER(16391): Sunniside, Pennyfine Gates - Details
16391
Gateshead
Sunniside, Pennyfine Gates
Sunniside
NZ25NW
Transport
Railway Transport Site
Level Crossing Gate
Early Modern
C19
Demolished Building
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.
2128
5904
NZ21285904
Sunniside Local History Society, no date, The Crescent & Peter's Gates, Sunniside, www.sunnisidelocalhistorysociety.co.uk/crescent.html