Rainton and Seaham Railway

HER Number:
2976

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Rainton and Seaham Railway

Place:
Warden Law

Map Sheet:
NZ35SE NZ34NW

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Railway Transport Site

Site Type: Specific:
Railway

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The Rainton and Seaham Railway line, built by the Marquis of Londonderry, opened in 1831 and was worked entirely by inclines. The line closed in 1896, but the section from near Copt Hill to the North Hetton Branch, along with that branch, was taken over by the Hetton Coal Company and worked until 1917. The western end was where it split into the Adventure and Framwellgate branches (HER ref. 3195 and HER ref. 3200, respectively) at Nicholson's Pit (HER ref. 3201).

Easting:
3745

Northing:
4965

Grid Reference:
NZ37454965

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 2976 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 6 inch scale, Durham14 C.E. Mountford, 1970, The Development of Colliery Railways in Co. Durham, p.13,16; East Rainton Women's Institute, no date, History of East Rainton (typescript); Pre-Construct Archaeology, 2019. Land at Hetton Road, Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear