The Brampton railway began in 1775 as a wooden wagonway from Tindale Fell Colliery to Brampton Coal Staithe constructed by the Earl of Carlisle.
The River Burn, Norfolk, which flows into the North Sea at Burnham Overy Staithe in the county of Norfolk, England
These installations were to be connected to a boat staithe on the River Don by a railway.
It is on the site of the former Tyne and Wear Metro test track, which was originally the line to the staithes on the Backworth Colliery system.
The yard lay on the original Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) extension to Port Darlington, developed from 1828 under the instructions of influential Quaker banker, coal mine owner and S&DR shareholder Joseph Pease, who had sailed up the River Tees to find a suitable new site down river of Stockton on which to place new coal staithes.