Links PageNational Grid references are shown to the nearest kilometre square.Local Railway Linkswww.avrs.co.uk - Aln Valley Railway SocietyPlans to reopen the line between Alnwick and Alnmouth.
www.bowesrailway.co.uk - The Bowes Railway
www.drcm.org.uk - Darlington Railway Centre and Museum
www.herrington-heritage.org.uk - Herrington Heritage
www.lambtonlocomotivestrust.co.uk - Lambton Locomotives Trust.
www.twmuseums.org.uk/monkwearmouth - Monkwearmouth Station Museum
www.nrm.org.uk - National Railway Museum www.nelpg.org.uk - North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group.
www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/m.h.ellison/ - website by Mike Ellison:- May Walk 2000 - Stockton and Darlington Railway, Brusselton and Etherley Inclineswww.ntsra.org.uk - North Tyneside Steam Railway Association Steam trains run between Middle Engine Lane and Percy Main. Exhibits include George Stephenson's locomotive Billy which was displayed on top of the High Level Bridge at the Newcastle end, before going to the 1929 Museum of Science and Engineering in Exhibition Park. www.northumbrian-railways.co.uk - rare photos of stations in North East England.
www.strps.org.uk - South Tynedale Railway Preservation Society at Alston, Cumbria.
www.tanfield-railway.co.uk - The Tanfield Railway www.weardale-railway.org.uk - The Weardale Railway started a steam-hauled service in July 2004 between Stanhope, Frosterley and Wolsingham. www.wrha.org.uk - Waverley Route Heritage Association. Track is being laid between Whitrope Tunnel and Riccarton Junction Station.
Other Railway Linkswww.disused-stations.org.uk - lists and photos of closed railway stations in the UK.www.heritagerailways.com and http://ukhrail.uel.ac.uk - UK Heritage Railways by Mark Dewell www.hmrs.org.uk - Historical Model Railway Society www.irsociety.co.uk - Industrial Railway Society. www.lner.info - The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Encyclopedia. www.ngrs.org - Narrow Gauge Railway Society. www.narrow-gauge.co.uk - Narrow Gauge Heaven www.railwaysarchive.co.uk - a free online archive of documents charting the development of Britain's railways. www.rcts.org.uk - Railway Correspondence and Travel Society. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/railways.htm - Spartacus Educational website about railways, locomotives and famous engineers. www.stephensonloco.org.uk - Stephenson Locomotive Society. www.sustrans.org.uk - Sustrans National Cycle Network using old railway routes. Tramway Engineering by J. B. Calvert, University of Denver, Colorado. www.transportheritage.com - "Our Transport Heritage" website was created by The Transport Trust - the hub of the transport preservation movement. www.waggonways.fsnet.co.uk - Waggonway Research Circle.
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"RAILWAYS." LoveToKnow 1911 Online Encyclopedia. © 2003, 2004 LoveToKnow.
Mining Linkswww.bgs.ac.uk - Founded in 1835, the British Geological Survey (BGS) is the world's longest established national geological survey and the United Kingdom's premier centre for earth science information and expertise.www.coal.gov.uk - The Coal Authority keeps plans of abandoned mine workings. Coal Mining by Ian Winstanley, engravings from The Illustrated London News. www.coalpits.co.uk - Coal mining research services by Alan Davies (website not working 15 January 2009). www.dmm.org.uk - The Durham Mining Museum for histories of collieries and lead mines. www.durham-miner.org.uk - Durham Miner Project, researching local mining history.
www.genuki.org.uk - Genealogy of the United Kingdom and Ireland. www.ironstonemuseum.co.uk - The Tom Leonard Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum is at Loftus Mines NZ7119. www.durham.gov.uk/killhope - the North of England Lead Mining Museum at Killhope in Weardale, County Durham. www.mindat.org - the largest mineral database and mineralogical reference website on the internet, with photographs of Fluorspar mined today in County Durham. www.minersadvice.co.uk - For the latest news affecting miners and the mining industry. www.mininginstitute.org.uk - The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers was established in 1852 in Newcastle to look at the safety of mining and to establish a literary institution. www.mining-memorabilia.co.uk - National Mining Memorabilia Association. www.mymarras.co.uk - Durham Pit Villages by Derek Brown. www.ncm.org.uk - National Coal Mining Museum, near Wakefield. www.nmrs.co.uk - The Northern Mine Research Society. Britain's foremost mining history society. www.dmm-pitwork.org.uk - Coal mining history by Bill Riley (formerly www.pitwork.net).
www.communigate.co.uk/ne/room/ - Residents Opposed to Opencast Mining at Stobswood Multimap aerial photo of Stobswood opencast minewww.ukcoal.com - UK COAL PLC is Europe's largest totally independently owned coal mining company.
www.experiencewoodhorn.com - Woodhorn Northumberland Museum Archives and Country Park. Map SourcesThe 2 volumes of A Fighting Trade: rail transport in Tyne coal, 1600-1800 by G Bennett, E Clavering and A Rounding.Published by Portcullis 1990, ISBN 0901273147 Maps of the wooden waggonways in north west Durham, with a detailed account of the fight to get the coal from colliery to staith. Much of the evidence comes from litigation between coal owner and landowner in the dispute over wayleaves. Order from www.asaplive.com/Local/home.cfm - Gateshead Local Studies - Publications for sale.
North Eastern Railway Historical Maps by RA Cook and K Hoole.
Local Historywww.britarch.ac.uk - Council for British Archaeology. The gateway to British archaeology online.www.northeasthistory.co.uk - the online version of The Northern Echo's history pages. www.british-history.ac.uk - British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk - Founded in 1899 and originally dedicated to Queen Victoria, the VCH is an encyclopaedic record of England's places and people from earliest times to the present day.
www.englandspastforeveryone.org.uk - England's Past for Everyone is a Heritage Lottery funded project run by the Victoria County History. Authors and researchers are working alongside volunteers in ten counties to produce 15 paperback publications, an interactive website and schools and learning resources.
BibliographyWaggonways and Early Railways of Northumberland by C R Warn.Published by Frank Graham 1976, ISBN 085983058 Contains reprints of old waggonway maps by William Casson (1804), Greenwood (1828) and Bell (1847).
Rural Branch Lines of Northumberland by C R Warn.
The North Eastern Railway by WW Tomlinson.
The North British Railway by John Thomas
The Railways of Consett and North-West Durham by G Whittle
The Newcastle and Carlisle Railway by G. Whittle
A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain, Vol 4 the North East by K Hoole.
North Eastern Branch Lines since 1925 by K Hoole.
Teesside Railways by Norman Hill.
The Locomotives of the Stockton and Darlington Railway by TR Pearce
The Stockton and Darlington Railway 175 years by Charlie Emett
First in the World, the Stockton and Darlington Railway by John Wall
Catalogue of Cleveland Ironstone Mines by Peter Tuffs of Guisborough
Railways in Cleveland by K Hoole Waggonways Home Page |