Tyne and Wear HER(2171): Backworth Colliery Railway, Church Pit Branch - Details
2171
N Tyneside
Backworth Colliery Railway, Church Pit Branch
Backworth
NZ37SW
Transport
Railway Transport Site
Railway
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
Backworth Colliery Railway (Church Pit Branch), from Earsdon Colliery (HER ref. 1114) to a junction with the East Holywell Colliery Railway (HER ref. 1051). This also served the Abbey Shot Factory (HER ref. 2172) and was built after 1858. A portion of rail is visible within a tarmac road at NZ 3100 7180. The remainder of the route has been covered by colliery waste and may survive.
3161
7237
NZ31617237
<< HER 2171 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1898, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 89, NW
2000, Moor Edge Farm, Archaeological Assessment -Historic Environment Record; John Elliott & Derek Charlton, 1994, Backworth - An Illustrated History of the Mines and Railways