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Brunton & North Shields Railway
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Date: | 1829-1864 |
History: | The Brunton and Shields Railway opened in 1826 and ran from a number of mines to staiths on the Tyne at North Shields. It was originally horse-drawn with balanced inclines whereby empty waggons were pulled up a slope by full waggons running down, but became one of the first railways to use a stationary steam engine developed by its resident engineer Benjamin Thompson. Locomotives were later introduced and in 1878 the railway became known as the Seaton Burn Waggonway. Part of the route now forms part of North Tyneside's network of waggonway paths. |
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Functions, occupations and activities: | Transport and communications > Railways |
Name authority reference: | GB/NNAF/C121188 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B11018 ) |
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1829-1864: corresp, estimates, reports, statements
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Tyne and Wear Archives
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DX155
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See Accessions to Repositories 1975
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