THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN

AND

JOURNAL OF THE COAL AND IRON TRADES.

Vol. CVII.

FRIDAY MAY 8, 1914.

No. 2784.

New Coaling Station at Tyne Dock.

The North Eastern Railway Company has
recently decided to establish a new riverside station
and coaling staiths at Jarrow Slake, immediately
west of the entrance to their Tyne Docks, and a
definite commencement with the work of construc-
tion is now being made, and the operations will
be carried on with all possible despatch. The work
has not been let to any firm of outside contractors,
but will be carried out by the company’s own staff
under the direction of Mr. Charles Watson, of

utilised for general passenger and goods traffic,
and there will be one 10 ton, two 3 ton, and three
30 cwt. cranes, each with a working radius of
44 ft. 9 in. The quay will have an average width
of about 70 ft., and the quay level will be 5 ft.
above high water, or 20 ft. above low water. The
depth of water alongside will be dredged to 25 ft.
at low tides. The river Don, which flows into the
Tyne at the western side of the entrance to the
Tyne Docks, will be diverted 500 ft. westward into

hoists. The empty trucks will leave the hoists at
a high level and pass on to an overhead viaduct,
and return to the empty mineral sidings by means
of gravitation. These sidings will have a total
standage of 750 wagons.

Since the opening in 1859 the huge total of
261,500,000 tons of coal and coke has been shipped
from Tyne Dock, the export therefrom now exceed-
ing 8,000,000 tons per annum, and representing
35.22 per cent, of the total coal and coke shipments
from the river Tyne. For the first three months of
the current year the shipments from Tyne Docks
amounted to 2,040,600 tons : a record for any single
week was established in the week ended February

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Figs. 1 and 2.—Plan and Elevation of Steel Belt Conveyor at Tyne Dock.

Hull, the chief engineer for docks of the North
Eastern Railway Company.

The new riverside quay will have a total length
of 1,865 ft., and 945 ft.—at the western end—will
be devoted solely to coal shipping, and it will be
equipped with two fixed hoists capable of shipping
coal at 60 ft. and 65 ft. above high water. This
length of staith will be built on a gradient of one
in 75, falling from the east to the west. The western .
portion of the quay—920 ft. in length—will be

Jarrow Slake in order to permit of the establish-
ment of sidings to supply the new riverside quay.

A passenger station, having a platform 600 ft.
in length, forms a portion of the scheme, and there
will be a transit shed, 275 ft. in length, at the
western end of the quay. Three groups of sidings
—two for serving the coal hoists and one for the
passenger and goods traffic—will be laid down.
The laden traffic will be propelled up a gradient of
one in 75, and then returned by gravity to the

28 last, when 179,543 tons were shipped, whilst a
day record was set up on March 27 last, when
37,395 tons were shipped. In considering these
figures regard should be paid to the fact that ship-
ments at Tyne Dock now cease at 4 p.m. Saturdays.
At the Tyne Docks there are four shipping staiths
carrying 42 spouts. One of these staiths is
equipped with electric belt conveyors, each with a
capacity of from 400 to 500 tons per hour, whilst
at the gravity spouts at the north end of the No. 4