. Views on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway . NEW CASTLE-ON-TYNE. The portion of Railway represented in the foreground of tins view is on the south side ofthe Tyne, and is a branch from the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway of about 3§ miles in departs from the main line at Blaydon, and terminates at Redheugh Quay, where it is joinedby the Brandling Junction Railway, which after passing through Gateshead, will communicatewith South Shields and Sunderland. This branch will be used principally for the conveyance of Coals from the Collieries, westof Newcastle, on the south side of the Ty
. Views on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway . NEW CASTLE-ON-TYNE. The portion of Railway represented in the foreground of tins view is on the south side ofthe Tyne, and is a branch from the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway of about 3§ miles in departs from the main line at Blaydon, and terminates at Redheugh Quay, where it is joinedby the Brandling Junction Railway, which after passing through Gateshead, will communicatewith South Shields and Sunderland. This branch will be used principally for the conveyance of Coals from the Collieries, westof Newcastle, on the south side of the Tyne. of ™£v,. nnO»S. PRUDIIOE CASTLE AND OVINGIIAM. The earliest possessors of Prudhoe Castle, on record, were the Umfranvilles who came toEngland with William the Conqueror, and whose descendants are so fully spoken of in theHistories of Northumberland; but it was doubtless a strong hold long before the time of theabove, and is supposed by Camden to have been the Procolita of the Romans. It is also famedfor the successful resistance made in the reign of Henry the Second, by its then possessors,against the incursions of William, King of Scotland. The Castle, and the low ground or Haughs which intervene between it and the River Tyne,are the property of His Grace the Duke of Northumberland. The Railway is here raised by an embankment about H mile in length and averaging ninefeet high above the level of the Haughs, which are bounded on the south by steep and wellwooded banks. Prudhoe Castle is about 10 miles west of Newcastle, and in the Parish of Ovingham, whichextends to both sides of the River. On the nor
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