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This 4 miles / 6 km walk/cycleway Contact details: links the Tyne Riverside Country Park at Newburn with . Traveline Tel: 0870 608 2608 The route is a flat riverside walk www.traveline.org.uk with fine views along the Tyne Valley and the landscaped golf Hadrian's Wall Information Line courses on both sides of the Tyne. Tel: 01434 322002 The route can be joined at any www.hadrians-wall.org point and can be followed in Newcastle Tourist either direction. Information Centre Rail services run to Wylam as Tel: 0191 2778000 well as frequent bus services to To give feedback on these & Newburn. Ample parking is other strategic routes in and available at Tyne Riverside around Newcastle, Country Park, and some on-road please contact: parking is possible in Wylam. John Robertson, Newcastle City Council Planning & Transportation Tel: 0191 232 8520

Wylam Waggon Way He later developed a steam- Stephenson’s Rocket powered that improved In 1748 the Wylam Waggon the system of pumping mine Designed and built by George trials. By the third day the Way was built to transport coal water. This steam-pump was Stephenson in 1829, the Rocket Rocket was the only from Wylam to Lemington soon used in collieries all over was entered in the trials left in the competition. It pulled dockside for the shipment of the North of . - a competition sponsored by a load of three times its own coal along the Tyne. The coal the & Manchester weight at the rate of 12.5mph/ waggons were pulled by horses Hedley was helped by Timothy Railway to obtain a locomotive 20kph and hauled a coach filled on wooden rails but this was not Hackworth, a local blacksmith, for carrying both passengers with passengers at 24mph/ very efficient. During the who later went on to assist and freight. 39kpm. Napoleonic Wars demand for . Ten were originally When the railroad opened in coal increased and Christopher George Stephenson, born at Blackett, the owner of Wylam entered for the but 1831, it contracted eight of Wylam 2 in 1781, where his only five turned up and four of Stephenson’s locomotives. Colliery, needed to improve the father was engineman at Wylam these were withdrawn during transport of his coal. Colliery. Stephenson later the first couple of days of the became engineman at , born at colliery where he Newburn in 1779, went to developed one of the earliest school in Wylam, became a locomotives called the Blucher. manager at Walbottle Colliery before he was twenty-two and Between 1814 and 1826, afterwards held the same Stephenson was almost the position at Wylam Colliery. only man building and developing new locomotives In 1808 with his son, Robert from replaced the wooden rails with their engineering business cast-iron plate-rails and asked in Forth Street, Newcastle. Hedley, his colliery manager, This culminated in the to try and produce a steam construction of his most locomotive. famous locomotive, The Rocket. By 1814 he produced two went on to locomotives, Puffing Billy and achieve fame building bridges Wylam Dilly which were still including Newcastle’s High working until 1860. Level Bridge. Stephenson’s Rocket

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