Lambton Railway

v t e Lambton Railway
Legend
to Tyne Dock & South Shields Durham Coast Line to Newcastle to Gateshead Monkwearmouth Railway Bridge Hetton & Lambton staithes South Docks River Wear Sunderland Wardley Colliery future Freightliner terminal Usworth Millfield Washington future Freightliner terminal Ryhope Pallion North Moor No.4 Hylton North Moor No.3 Cox Green North Moor No.2 Victoria Viaduct North Moor No.1 North Biddick Colliery Seaton Bank Top Harraton Colliery Lambton Engine Works to Chester-le-Street Dorothea Pit Philadelphia Power Station Durham Coast Line to Seaham Penshaw Margaret Pit Lumley Sixth Pit Warden Law engine Fencehouses Lambton D Pit Houghton Colliery Copt Hil engine Leamside Nicholson Pit to Durham Eppleton Colliery to Durham (Goods) Belmont Bank Pittington Hetton Littletown Colliery South Hetton Littleton Hill Colliery Hetton Colliery Sherburn Colliery Elemore Colliery Sherburn Colliery Moorsley Pit Sherburn House Sherburn House Colliery Leamside Line to Ferryhill Braddyll's Railway to Seaham Durham Sunderland Line to Durham Elvet

The Lambton Railway was a private industrial railway in County Durham, England, constructed initially as a tramway from 1737, to enable coal to be transported from Lambton Collieries to the Port of Sunderland. It closed under the ownership of the National Coal Board in August 1967.^[1]