Tyne and Wear HER(2564): Brandling Junction Railway, South Shields branch line - Details
2564
S Tyneside
Brandling Junction Railway, South Shields branch line
South Shields
NZ36NE
Transport
Railway Transport Site
Railway
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
Part of the original line of the Brandling Junction Railway, terminating at the station HER ref. 2366. The Brandling Junction Railway was completed in 1839 but this short section was abandoned in 1842 when the line was extended to a new station (HER ref. 2353), behind South Shields market place. The final form of that line is HER ref. 2288.
3573
6633
NZ35736633
<< HER 2564 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 4
N.T. Sinclair, & I.S. Carr, 1990, Railways of South Shields, p.6-7