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Herbert Soden

Wallsend pub housing scheme could have more homes added

More houses could be added to a development on the site of a flattened Wallsend pub if the council gives the go-ahead to the scheme.

Balliol Property Management and Development was given planning permission build 10 four-bedroom, town houses at the Bogie Chain, on Western Road, in March.

Now the firm has come to North Tyneside Council to ask for consent to build a further two four-bedroom semi detached houses and six parking spaces on the site, making a total of 12 homes.

The pub, which was previously known as the Railway Inn and had a railway carriage on site, lies near Willington Gut and Wallsend Burn, which forms part of Wallsend Parks . It was also near the Bridon International industrial site.

The derelict Bogie Chain pub on Western Road (Copyright Unknown)

It has since been flattened and the railway carriage that made the hostelry recognisable in the area has been taken away for restoration.

The former Bogie Chain pub's railway car safely unloaded at Aln Valley Railway's Lionheart station (Pat Murphy/AVR)

The former British Rail carriage was used as a dining area between the early 1990s and mid-2000s.

But the mark-one carriage, was delivered to Aln Valley railway in May, where the car will be renovated and could - possibly - become a bar and dining coach on a steam railway taking tourists from Alnmouth to Alnwick.

North Tyneside Council's planning committee is expected to decide on the latest application by late January.

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