The commemoration stone reads "Wallsend No. 1Tunnel 1897.
Greetings to our friends in NSW.


Fresh Haddock's!  Interesting that then , as now, shopkeeper's had a preference to insert apostrophe's where none were needed.










Thanks to Harry Rowell for this pic., taken from Hebburn ballast hill, of Britannia passing Swans.





An aerial view clearly showing the viaduct and Willington Gut.  (Harry Rowell)





Intersection of High St. and Station Road. (featuring Ford Consul and Mayflower?)