Blaydon Burn, wagonway spur

HER Number:
8422

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Blaydon Burn, wagonway spur

Place:
Blaydon Burn

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Railway Transport Site

Site Type: Specific:
Railway

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Steep spur off central waggonway leading from the coal screens (HER 8417) up to a large slag heap. Marked on the 3rd edition OS map (1914). The sides of the waggonway are revetted by a sandstone wall very similar to those found behind the coal screens (HER 8415 and 8416). In parts this has been replaced and re-enforced with extensive firebrick walling, presumably where the original bank has failed. At the base of the waggonway are a series of brick piers which must have held some form of pipework, possibly conveying water from the reservoir (HER 8423).

Easting:
1702

Northing:
6263

Grid Reference:
NZ17026263

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Northern Archaeological Associates & Northern Counties Archaeological Services, 2005, Blaydon Burn, Gateshead - Archaeological Desk Based Assessment and Building Survey of Industrial Structures