Throston Engine House, Old Cemetery Road, Hartlepool
The Throston Engine House was built to hold a hauling engine. The engine was used to pull coal wagons up a railway incline to the top of the coal staithes (wharf) so that the coal could be loaded onto ships. A dispute between railway companies over the use of these coal shipping facilities was one of the reasons that the new town of West Hartlepool was built in the 1840s.
