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Wallsend Branch

Summary

Track: > 7.50 km
Stations: 0 / 1 in use

A colliery line which extended from the original Hanbury Junction south the the Wallsend, Wallsend Borehole and Elermore Collieries. The line left the Main North near the Maud Street bridge, running alongside the present-day roads of University Drive, Wilkinson Avenue, and Cowper Street.

This line was unusual for a colliery line in that it also featured a station at Wallsend.


Name Facility Status Opened Closed km Photos
icon Hanbury Junction Junction Closed 3-Jan-1861 1960s 167.530 5
icon icon Jct (Waratah No 2 Quarry) Junction Closed unknown unknown 4
icon icon Waratah No 2 Quarry Other Closed unknown unknown 4
icon icon New Tunnel Junction Junction Closed unknown unknown 169.840 3
icon icon Elermore Colliery Colliery Closed unknown unknown 171.210
icon icon Cooperative Junction Junction Closed unknown unknown
icon icon Wallsend Borehole Colliery Colliery Closed unknown unknown
icon Wallsend Station Closed unknown 1939 172.460 4
icon Wallsend Colliery Colliery Closed unknown unknown 173.660

Summary

Track: > 7.50 km
Stations: 0 / 1 in use
Section Opened Closed Usage
Hanbury Junction - Wallsend Colliery 3-Jan-1861   1960s  1 general

Elermore Colliery branch

New Tunnel Junction - Elermore Colliery unknown   unknown  1 general

Wallsend Borehole Colliery branch

Cooperative Junction - Wallsend Borehole Colliery unknown   unknown  1 general

Waratah No 2 Quarry branch

Jct (Waratah No 2 Quarry) - Waratah No 2 Quarry unknown   unknown  1 general
1 Track has been lifted