Brockley Whins
Brockley Whins | |
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 Brockley Whins Metro station | |
  Brockley Whins Location in Tyne and Wear | |
| Coordinates: 54°57′34″N 1°27′39″W / 54.959509°N 1.460857°W | |
| OS grid reference | NZ345628 |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Country | England |
| District | Tyne and Wear |
Brockley Whins is an area in South Tyneside, part of South Shields, with a postcode of NE32 [1]
It is served by Brockley Whins Metro station.[1]
When the Brandling Junction Railway (now the Newcastle-Sunderland metro line) was built (1839) it crossed the Stanhope and Tyne railway nearby.[2] Sidings were put in place to connect the two railways together, and a station was placed there, named after the farm because it was the nearest habitation at that time. The modern estate was apparently named after the station.
References
- ↑ Padgett, David (2016). Railway track diagrams 2: Eastern (4 ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. 46A. ISBN 978-0-9549866-8-1.
- ↑ Tomlinson, William Weaver (1914). The North Eastern Railway; its rise and development. Newcastle: Reid. p. 329. OCLC 1049905072.
External links
Media related to Brockley Whins at Wikimedia Commons