Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 1547 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Collieries, railways, docks
Covering Dates: 1817-1986
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- Miscellaneous documents
- Collieries and Railways (Ref: D/X 1547)
- Northumbrian Sailing Coble (Ref: D/X 1547/1)
- Hetton Railway (Ref: D/X 1547/2-3)
- Philadelphia Workshops (Ref: D/X 1547/4-5)
- Railway plans (Ref: D/X 1547/6-9)
- Sunderland Harbour and Docks (Ref: D/X 1547/10-13)
- Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine (which is the same as Hawthorn Combined Mine Project) (Ref: D/X 1547/14-40)
- Battery locomotives (Ref: D/X 1547/41-42)
- Durham coalfield (Ref: D/X 1547/43)
- Marley Hill Colliery (Ref: D/X 1547/44-49)
- Mainsforth Colliery (Ref: D/X 1547/50)
- Ryhope Colliery (Ref: D/X 1547/51)
- Publications (Ref: D/X 1547/52)
Catalogue Contents
Collieries and Railways (Ref: D/X 1547)Northumbrian Sailing Coble (Ref: D/X 1547/1)Ref: D/X 1547/1
Plan of Northumbrian Sailing Coble, S.S.S. 33 Enterprise, n.d.
Scale: 1 inch to 1 foot [1:12]
(1 plan, 204.5 cm. x 81 cm.)
Hetton Railway (Ref: D/X 1547/2-3)Ref: D/X 1547/2Plan of Hetton Railway from Hetton Colliery to Staithes, n.d. [1830s - 1840s]
The plan is from Chief Surveyor's office at N.C.B. North East Headquarters at Team Valley
Scale: 2 chains to 1 inch [40 inches to 1 mile] 1:5844
(1 plan, 817 cm. x 48 cm., cloth)
Ref: D/X 1547/3Copy of a plan of Hetton Railway from Hetton Colliery to Staithes, 1830s - 1840s; copy made, c.1995
The plan is from Chief Surveyor's office at N.C.B. North East Area Headquarters, Team Valley, Gateshead, copied from the original owned by D.W.V. Branfoot of Hartlepool.
The plan was drawn by the same draughtsman as D/X1547/1, but includes sections and a gradient profile and is different in detail
Scale: 2 chains to 1 inch (40 inches to 1 mile) [1:1584]
(1 plan, 835 cm. x 84 cm.)
Philadelphia Workshops (Ref: D/X 1547/4-5)Ref: D/X 1547/4Copy of a plan of Philadelphia Yard/Lambton Engine Works, n.d. [1850s]
The workshops at Philadelphia served the Earl of Durham's collieries, railway and staiths
Scale: 1 inch to 1 foot [1:12]
(1 plan, 140 cm. x 74.5 cm.)
Ref: D/X 1547/5Plan of the surface layout of N.C.B. Philadelphia Area workshops, drawing number W.1830, c.1986
The workshops are the same as those shown in D/X 1547/4. The site closed on 22 December 1989, and virtually all the building survives in use, in 2006
Scale: 1 inch to 30 feet [1:360]
(1 plan, 69 cm. x 107 cm.)
Railway plans (Ref: D/X 1547/6-9)Ref: D/X 1547/6Copy of the plan, by J. Nesham, esq., and company, of the wagon railway from the collieries near Newbottle to the River Wear at Sunderland, 1817
One drawing shows the course of land and the names of the owners, a section showing cuttings, embankments, etc.
Scale: 1 inch to 60 feet [1:720]
(1 plan, 308.5 cm. x 83 cm.)
Ref: D/X 1547/7Copy of a plan of the Lambton and Hetton collieries' railways and the North Eastern Railway in the Hetton and Rainton areas, including Elemore Pit, Hetton Colliery, Eppleton Colliery, Moorsley Pit, Hazard Pit, Dun Well Pit, Nicholson Pit, n.d. [1916 - 1917]
[Received from John Mallom, Darlington, 2001]
Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10560]
(1 plan, 56 cm. x 43 cm.)
Ref: D/X 1547/8A general arrangement drawing for a guard's van for the Lambton, Hetton and Joicey Colliery Ltd., drawing no. 2825/T77, 5 December 1932
The guard's van was to be built at the company's Philadelphia Wagon Shops. Brake vans were needed for the coal trains travelling over the LNER between Penshaw and Sunderland
Scale: 1 inch to 1 foot [1:12]
(1 plan, 94.5 cm. x 62 cm.)
Ref: D/X 1547 /9A map, drawn by R. Alan Clothier, General Manager, British Rail, Eastern Region, which shows the railways, public and private, from south of Plawsworth to Eryholme, North Yorkshire, and from Tow Law to West Cornforth, and locations of coal mines, 1975
Not to scale
(1 plan, 19.5 cm. x 28.5 cm.)
Sunderland Harbour and Docks (Ref: D/X 1547/10-13)Ref: D/X 1547/10Plan, by joint engineers, Robert Stephenson and John Murray, of a proposed wet dock and tide basins at Sunderland, with a southern outlet into Hendon Bay, from the prospectus, 1850
Scale: 1 inch to 500 feet [1:6000]
(1 plan, 42 cm. x 28 cm.)
Ref: D/X 1547 /11A general plan, by Andrew Reid and Company Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne, of Sunderland harbour and docks, for the River Wear Commissioners, 1928
Scale: 1 inch to 500 feet [1:6000]
(1 plan, 61 cm. x 30.5 cm.)
Ref: D/X 1547 /12A general plan, by Andrew Reid and Company Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne, of Sunderland harbour and docks, for the River Wear Commissioners indicating the post-improvement works, 1928
Scale: 1 inch to 500 feet [1:6000]
(1 plan, 61 cm. x 30.5 cm.)
Ref: D/X 1547 /13A general plan, by Andrew Reid and Company Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne, of Sunderland harbour and docks, for the River Wear Commissioners, 1960
Scale: 1 inch to 500 feet [1:6000]
(1 plan, 61 cm. x 30.5 cm.)
Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine (which is the same as Hawthorn Combined Mine Project) (Ref: D/X 1547/14-40)Faced with very old, worn out and obsolete equipment at Elemore and Eppleton Collieries near Hetton le Hole, with their old partially rope-workled railway to Sunderland, and similar problems at Murton Colliery, but with extensive reserves of good quality coal, the Durham Division of the National Coal Board decided, in 1952, to sink a large 22 foot diameter shaft at Hawthorn, one mile south of Murton.
This would have two locomotive horizons, with Murton and Elemore Collieries linked to the Upper Level and Murton and Eppleton Collieries linked to the Lower Level.
Over 24 miles of the system, traffic was to be locomotive-hauled, by battery locomotives at Eppleton and Murton, and by diesel locomotives at Elemore.
The system was fitted with colour light electric signalling.
Coal output was planned at 8000 tons per day.
A large new coal washery and coking plant were to be built at Hawthorn, allowing the closure of the old coke plants at Horden and Shotton.
The scheme was officially opened on 2 January 1960, though it had been operational since September 1959.
The track layout for an underground signalling diagram for Eppleton Colliery (Lindsay shaft), of the Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine [also known as the Hawthorn Combined Mine Project], drawing no. M5960), prepared by the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire, May 1959
(1 plan, 50 cm. x 33 cm.)
Ref: D/X 1547/15The track layout for an underground signalling diagram at 69B East and West Offtakes, of the Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine [also known as the Hawthorn Combined Mine Project] (drawing no. M5961/10), prepared by the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire, June 1959
(1 plan, 50 cm. x 33 cm., paper)
Ref: D/X 1547/16The track layout for an underground signalling diagram, at marshalling point 'Z', of the Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine (drawing no. M6003/1) [also known as the Hawthorn Combined Mine Project], prepared by the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire, December 1959
(1 plan, 100 cm. x 33 cm., paper)
Ref: D/X 1547/17The track layout for an underground signalling diagram, of schematic circuits for indicators for Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine (drawing no. M6010) [also known as the Hawthorn Combined Mine Project], prepared by the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire, February 1960
(1 plan, 50 cm. x 33 cm., paper)
Ref: D/X 1547/18The track layout for an underground signalling diagram, Hawthorn shaft bottom lower level, for Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine (drawing no. M6006/1) [also known as the Hawthorn Combined Mine Project], prepared by the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire, April 1960
(1 plan, 50 cm. x 33 cm., paper)
Ref: D/X 1547/19The track layout for an underground signalling diagram, to Harvey West District and spillage loading point (lower level), for Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine (drawing no. M6007/1A) [also known as the Hawthorn Combined Mine Project], prepared by the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire, May 1960
(1 plan 50 cm. x 33 cm., paper)
Ref: D/X 1547/20The track layout for an underground signalling diagram, for West Road (lower level) for Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine (diagram no. M6008/1) [also known as the Hawthorn Combined Mine Project], prepared by the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire, May 1960
(1 plan, 50 cm. x 33 cm., paper)
Ref: D/X 1547/21The track layout for an underground signalling diagram, for East/West Junction and Murton shaft sidings (lower level) for Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine (drawing no. M6009/1) [also known as the Hawthorn Combined Mine Project], prepared by the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire, May 1960
(1 plan, 50 cm. x 33 cm., paper)
Ref: D/X 1547/22The track layout for an underground signalling diagram, for in-bye to marshalling point 'Y', lower level, (drawing no. M6041/1) for Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine [also known as the Hawthorn Combined Mine Project], prepared by the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire, May 1960
(1 plan, 50 cm. x 33 cm., paper)
Ref: D/X 1547/23The track layout for an underground signalling diagram, for schematic circuits for indicators, to include Harvey Pass Bye, for Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine (drawing no. M6085) [also known as the Hawthorn Combined Mine Project], prepared by the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire, September 1960
(1 plan, 50 cm. x 33 cm.)
Ref: D/X 1547/24The track layout for an underground signalling diagram, for marshalling point 'Y' and In-bye lower level, for Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine (drawing no. M6042/1) [also known as the Hawthorn Combined Mine Project], prepared by the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire, February 1962
(1 plan, 100 cm. x 33 cm., paper)
Ref: D/X 1547/25The track layout for an underground signalling diagram, for Out-bye of marshalling point '2', for Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine (drawing no. M6004/1A) [also known as the Hawthorn Combined Mine Project], prepared by the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire, February 1962
(1 plan, 100 cm. x 33 cm., paper)
Ref: D/X 1547/26A plan showing the arrangement of battery charging station C.S.3 at Eppleton Colliery and C.S.6 at Murton Colliery, drawing B/EL/L24, 12 September 1956
Charging stations were locomotive sheds underground where the battery locomotives had their batteries re-charged. C.S.3 was located near the Eppleton Colliery shafts, at the lower level, C.S.6 was near the Murton shafts, at the upper level
(1 plan, 98 cm. x 71 cm., paper)
Ref: D/X 1547/27A plan for underground loco signalling Murton upper level and track layout for East Road, for Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine (drawing no. 6001/1) [also known as the Hawthorn Combined Mine Project], prepared by the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire, November 1959
(1 plan, 50 cm. x 33 cm., paper)
Ref: D/X 1547/28A plan for underground loco signalling upper level and track layout for Murton shaft area, for Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine (drawing no. 600/1) [also known as the Hawthorn Combined Mine Project], prepared by the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire, November 1959
(1 plan, 50 cm. x 33 cm., paper)
Ref: D/X 1547/29A plan for underground loco signalling upper level and layout of tracks at Hawthorn shaft sidings, for Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine (drawing no. 6002/1) [also known as the Hawthorn Combined Mine Project], prepared by the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire, December 1959
(1 plan, 50 cm. x 33 cm., paper)
Ref: D/X 1547/30A plan for the underground upper level signalling and the track layout at East/West junction, for Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine (drawing no. 6005/1) [also known as the Hawthorn Combined Mine Project], prepared by the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire, January 1960
(1 plan, 50 cm. x 33 cm., paper)
Ref: D/X 1547/31A plan for the underground signalling upper level and the track layout showing areas covered by individual schematic for Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine (drawing no. M5999) [also known as the Hawthorn Combined Mine Project], prepared by the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire, January 1960
(1 plan, 50 cm. x 33 cm., paper)
Ref: D/X 1547/32A plan for the underground upper level signalling and the track layout for roads to 5/4 North and Staple shaft, for Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine (drawing no. 6043/1) [also known as the Hawthorn Combined Mine Project], prepared by the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire, June 1960
(1 plan, 50 cm. x 33 cm., paper)
Ref: D/X 1547/33A plan for the underground signalling and track layout for East West Junction to marshalling point 'X', for Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine (drawing no. 6046/1) [also known as the Hawthorn Combined Mine Project], prepared by the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire, July 1960
(1 plan, 50 cm. x 33 cm., paper)
Ref: D/X 1547/34A plan for the underground signalling and track layout for 5/4 South and Yard Seam Districts Upper Level, for Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine (drawing no. M6044/1) [also known as the Hawthorn Combined Mine Project], prepared by the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire, July 1960
(1 plan, 50 cm. x 33 cm., paper)
Ref: D/X 1547/35A plan for the underground signalling and track layouts for marshalling point 'X', for Murton/Eppleton Combined Mine (drawing no. 6045/1) [also known as the Hawthorn Combined Mine Project], prepared by the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire, July 1960
(1 plan, 50 cm. x 33 cm.)
Ref: D/X 1547/36A plan for the proposed underground locomotive signalling system, Extension - Murton Colliery upper level, and track layout, Hawthorn Combined Mine Project, prepared by South Durham Drawing Office, South Hetton, 9 August 1967
(1 plan, 91 cm. x 67 cm.)
Ref: D/X 1547/37Proposed locomotive signalling arrangement showing marshalling yard 'W' - Elemore Colliery, N.C.B. (drawing no. B.EL/S/EL38), 10 February 1961
[Note by C.E.M. (Colin Mountford, depositor): Initially, Elemore Colliery's track gauge was left at 2ft. 31/2in; this was not fully converted to the 2ft. 0in. gauge used everywhere else until 1961]
[Note by C.E.M. (Colin Mountford, depositor): In 1969 the N.C.B. decided on a major re-organisation of the railway systems at Eppleton and Murton, whereby (in brief) instead of having trains of 24 mine cars being hauled by a single battery electric loco to a marshalling yard more or less mid-way between the colliery and Hawthorn Shaft, trains of 48 mine cars would run direct to Hawthorn hauled by two battery electric locomotives in tandem]
(1 plan, 130 cm. x 73 cm.)
Ref: D/X 1547/38Arrangement of lower level, Murton shaft - in-bye for tandem locomotive operation, (drawing no. M/SlG/LL.1), with signal operation schedule and description of traffic movements,
28 October 1969
Also included are the existing arrangements shown on the Westinghouse [Brake and Signal Co. Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire] drawings no. M6041/1 and M6042/1
(1 paper, 100 cm. x 70 cm.)
Ref: D/X 1547/39A plan of the layout of lower level existing and proposed systems for track and signalling, Murton Colliery, (drawing no. M/SlG/LL6), 5 November 1969
(1 plan, 100 cm. x 70 cm.)
Ref: D/X 1547/40Hawthorn Tandem Loco Scheme, jobs for planning and actual execution: progress plans for Murton Colliery, Eppleton Colliery and Hawthorn Shaft, indicating planning approach, requisition and ordering, delivery period and physical progress, October 1969 to August 1970
(1 graph, 48 cm. x 57.5 cm.)
Battery locomotives (Ref: D/X 1547/41-42)Ref: D/X 1547 /41General arrangement drawing of the English Electric Co. Ltd., Bradford, double-ended battery locomotive type EM2 B1, (drawing B/EL/L2), 10 January 1960
Note by C.E.M. (Colin Mountford, depositor): approximately 30 of these locomotives were in use on this system at its maximum extent, almost all of them built by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns Ltd. at Newcastle, acting as sub-contractors to English Electric.
Scale: 1.5 inches to 1 foot [1:80]
(1 plan, 100 cm. x 70 cm.)
Ref: D/X 1547 /42General arrangement drawing of 13 ton battery [electric] loco Ex. Llay Main Colliery, Denbighshire, North Wales, (drawing no. B/EL/L81), 29 November 1963
Scale: 1.5 inches to 1 foot [1:80]
Note by C.E.M. (Colin Mountford, depositor): Llay Main Colliery was in Denbighshire in North Wales. Murton Colliery acquired two battery electric locomotives from this colliery in 1964
(1 plan, 98 cm. x 63 cm.)
Durham coalfield (Ref: D/X 1547/43)Ref: D/X 1547/43A map of part of the Durham Coalfields, showing distances from the Port of Sunderland, the names of the collieries and the major colliery companies, n.d. [c.1895-1900]
(1 plan, 43.5 cm. x 33 cm., printed)
Marley Hill Colliery (Ref: D/X 1547/44-49)Ref: D/X 1547 /44A map of Marley Hill Colliery (near Gateshead) (Map 3) with a comparison of 17 December 1842 to 16 December 1843, and 16 December 1843 to 14 December 1844, 1967
Scale: 1 inch to 1 mile [1:63360]
(1 map, 39 cm. x 29 cm.)
Ref: D/X 1547 /45A map of Marley Hill Colliery (near Gateshead) Coal Vend, (Map 4) with a comparison of 17 December 1842 to 16 December 1843, and 14 December 1844 to 14 December 1845, 1967
Scale: 1 inch to 1 mile [1:63360]
(1 map, 41.5 cm. x 38 cm.)
Ref: D/X 1547 /46A map of Marley Hill Colliery (near Gateshead) Coke Vend, (Map 5), with a comparison of 17 December 1842 to 16 December 1843 and 16 December 1843 to 14 December 1844, 1967
Scale: 1 inch to 1 mile [1:63360]
(1 map, 40.5 cm. x 24.5 cm.)
Ref: D/X 1547/47A map of Marley Hill Colliery (near Gateshead) Coke Vend (Map 6), with a comparison of 17 December 1842 to 16 December 1843, and 14 December 1844 to 14 December 1845, 1967
Scale: 1:850000
(1 map, 38 cm. x 43.5 cm.)
Ref: D/X 1547 /48Index list of locations for Marley Hill Colliery (near Gateshead) Coal Vend, December 1842 to December 1845, for use with maps B/11/1 and B/11/2 (maps 3 and 4), 1967 (1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1547/49Index list of locations for Marley Hill Colliery (near Gateshead) Coke Vend, December 1842 to December 1845 for use with maps B/11/3 and B/11/4 (maps 5 and 6), 1967 (1 paper)
Mainsforth Colliery (Ref: D/X 1547/50)Ref: D/X 1547/50Plan of Mainsforth Colliery, showing representative sections of coal seams across 'Take', [West-East and North-South], n.d. [1950s]
Scale: 1:10560
(1 plan, 98 cm. x 27.8 cm., tracing paper, ink)
Ryhope Colliery (Ref: D/X 1547/51)Ref: D/X 1547/51Plan of Ryhope Colliery, showing a section of exploration drifts, East Hutton Seam, n.d. [1930s]
Scale: horizontal: 10 yards to 1 inch, vertical: 10 feet to 1 inch
(1 plan, 182 cm. x 40 cm., waxed linen, coloured ink)
Publications (Ref: D/X 1547/52)Ref: D/X 1547/52/1National Coal Board. South Durham Area. Easington Colliery, n.d. [c. 1972]
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/X 1547/52/2National Coal Board. South Durham Area. Horden Colliery, n.d. [1967]
(1 booklet, printed)
