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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

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