Wapping Street Railway

This structure was added to the South Tyneside local list in 2023. The local list description reads:
' With the demolition of houses in Wapping Street and Shadwell Street, there were plans to run a railway line from the station down a steep incline beside the turntable then along the riverside in Wapping Street to serve the docks and related industries, then on to link up with the TIC Line at Littlehaven.
The line was installed in 1939 and ran up the bank on the left close to the River Drive Bridge. A connection to the LNER was to have been installed in 1940 yet amazingly given the strategic potential, wartime conditions prevented this and the line was never used." Correction: Terry Ford has noted that the railway was actually used for a "mobile crane [...] and would have been installed for factory use.
Source: Les Snaith.'