Mineral Railway
Inert
Mineral Railway is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Whitburn. It received inert waste between 1978 and 1980, covering about 2.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD06256, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06256 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Mineral Railway |
| Address | Coast Road, Mardsen, South Shield, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | South Tyneside Borough Council |
| Licence holder | South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 4 January 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1994 |
| First waste input | 1 April 1978 |
| Last waste input | 8 October 1980 |
| Area | 2.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 440300, 564400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Part Of Marsden Quarry LandfillWaste types not recorded
- Disused Quarry off Quarry LaneWaste types not recorded
- Harton Down HillWaste types not recorded
- Cleadon Park QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Frenchman's LeaWaste types not recorded
- Graham Sands - Trow QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
What this data does — and doesn't — cover
- Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
- Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
- Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
- Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.
EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.