NEHL - The Betty Pit was an incredibly early working, with a longevity of 250 years. It was at Low Eighton, over the road from the Angel of the North site (which is where the pithead baths were situated) and utilised the Team Colliery waggonway. This curved all the way from Wrekenton down the hill, taking a sharp bend back north to Allerdene Colliery on the East Coast Main Line to Dunston Staiths where coal would eventually be transported.

From 1726 it was owned by the Burdon family of Hartford Hall, and later by E M Perkins and Pelaw Main Collieries

The Betty Pit featured 2 engine houses, one for the pit itself and presumably another to wind the rope for the wagons on the railway, as well as a set of 3 reservoirs to the west where water was pumped out of the working. A small settlement popped up directly north, above the Meadow Pit fan shaft. Liddell Terrace, Eslington Terrace and Ravensworth Terrace have all been demolished.

Though there is minimal traces of the working itself, the railway is still traversable and the site is not developed.