Melkridge Sidings
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Melkridge Sidings (1991-2000)Opened on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway.
Description
These sidings were a loading location for the opencast mine at Plenmeller, to the south. A conveyor system, around a mile and a half long, crossed the River South Tyne and passed through a tunnel to reach the opencast site on Plenmeller Common.
The opencast site has been largely landscaped. The sidings remain, out of use.
Tags
Sidings opencast conveyor
| Nearby stations Haltwhistle Bardon Mill Featherstone Park Coanwood Greenhead Lambley Staward Halt Bishopside Halt Milk Platform Gilsland Langley Haydon Bridge Haydon Bridge [1st] Allendale Slaggyford Elrington Halt | Whitchester Tunnel Blackett Colliery Plenmeller Opencast Henshaw Colliery Blenkinsopp Colliery Blenkinsopp Colliery Lambley Viaduct Lambley Colliery Langley Lead Works Poltross Burn Viaduct Quarry Shaft Burnstones Viaduct Tourist/other Blenkinsopp Hall Langley Castle |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
