Tyne and Wear HER(17096): Harraton, General Lambton's Railway - Details
17096
Sunderland
Harraton, General Lambton's Railway
Harraton
NZ25SE
Transport
Tramway
Wagonway
Post Medieval
C18
Documentary Evidence
This waggonway is shown and named on Gibson’s 1787 map of the Coalfield. It ran from Harraton to the north bank of the River Wear at Chartershaugh.
2822
5511
NZ28225511
Alan Williams Archaeology, 2013, Waggonways to the South Bank of the River Tyne and to the River Wear; Turnbull, L, 2012, Railways Before George Stephenson (entry 75a-b); Gibson's Map of Coalfield 1787