IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Wharton Street, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE33 3JZ

Introduction

This page details the photographs taken nearby to Wharton Street, NE33 3JZ by members of the Geograph project.

The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.

There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk

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Image Listing (20 Images Found)

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Details
Distance
1
Shared use path, South Shields
A former railway in what is now a linear park.
Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 18 Jun 2013
0.08 miles
2
Millennium Milepost, South Shields
On route 1 of the National Cycle Network
Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 18 Jun 2013
0.09 miles
3
Westoe Lane station, South Shields & Whitburn Colliery Railway, 1953
The view is westward, towards Tyne Dock and Whitburn Junction. In the opposite direction ran the S.S. & W.C. Railway to Whitburn Colliery, which closed five months later on 23/11/53 along with this station, also the line from Westoe Colliery which lasted until 1993. Ahead the lines were goods only, but electrified, conveying the mineral traffic to Tyne Dock staithes or onto the ex-NER lines. (See also Image]).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 28 Jun 1953
0.15 miles
4
Westoe Lane station, South Shields, Marsden & Whitburn Colliery Railway on Last Day, 1953
View NW, towards South Shields staithes by the (electrified) freight-only line just visible on the left. The SS&WCR passenger service terminated here from Whitburn Colliery; it ceased from this day (22/11/53). For details see Image The locomotive is a Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn 0-6-0ST, No. 7749 of 1952.
Image: © Walter Dendy, deceased Taken: 22 Nov 1953
0.15 miles
5
Former railway, South Shields
One of the mineral lines which served the collieries ran where this park is today. Now it is a cycle/foot path.
Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 18 Jun 2013
0.16 miles
6
Westoe Lane station, South Shields, Marsden & Whitburn Colliery Railway on Last Day, 1953
View west, towards Tyne Dock. The Last(daylight passenger) Train (13.00 to Whitburn Colliery) is about to leave, headed by R. Stephenson & Hawthorn 0-6-0ST No. 7749 of 1952. (See also Image).
Image: © Walter Dendy, deceased Taken: 22 Nov 1953
0.17 miles
7
Shops on Westoe Road, South Shields
Image: © JThomas Taken: 7 Jul 2018
0.19 miles
8
St John's Presbyterian Church, South Shields
Image: © JThomas Taken: 7 Jul 2018
0.19 miles
9
St Bede Roman Catholic Church, South Shields
Image: © JThomas Taken: 7 Jul 2018
0.20 miles
10
St John's Presbyterian Church, Beach Road, South Shields
Image: © Bill Henderson Taken: 11 Jun 2012
0.20 miles