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Worsdell Drive, GATESHEAD, NE8 2DA

A phased development at Gateshead from Bellway Homes. This will be Midlothian Court.

Autumnal sapling beside the visitor car park.

Constructed by Bellway.

Looking out over Wellbrook House and Gateshead's new apartments. Grey's Monument is visible among the roofs on the left; Cale Cross House distinguished by its green and white stripes marks the right. The crowned spire of St Nicholas Cathedral, the Black Gate, Castle Keep and the line of the High Level Bridge can be seen in the town - a scatter of the new and the old. The green domed roof of the Civic Centre Image is in the distance, just left of centre, with the tower block of Bewick Court Image on its right. Directly below them, the Pearl Assurance Image and Carliol House Image buildings are prominent. 55 Degrees North Image is the large white block to their right.

Listed building near a development of new apartments, close to Queen Elizabeth II Bridge.

You have to admire the contrasting styles of these bridges. In the background, the Sage centre.

View NE from Gateshead Locomotive Works, to the High Level Bridge. This Bridge (railway above, road below) cuts across from St Nicholas Church on the left to the City Church on the right and the Castle Keep in the middle. Central Station is hidden behind the factories on Forth Street and Forth Banks on the Newcastle riverside. This was all before another bridge was built and almost all is different nowadays.

The south end of the bridge. Viewed from a north bound train on the King Edward VII bridge. The old engine shed Image at Rabbit Banks Road can be seen beyond.

View eastward, towards Gateshead West Station. This is a general view of the west end of the yard: the main Sheds (and Works) were on the left, the 'Pacific Shed' up to the right and the Chaytor's Bank (former) roundhouse beyond. There was never enough room to house or move the engines around - and much use was made of the double access to Newcastle Central Station, via the triangular junctions across the High Level and King Edward Bridges and the lines between them on the Gateshead side of the Tyne. There were about 90 locomotives allocated to this principal Depot of the Newcastle District, coded 52A by BR. The motive-power of much of the enormous passenger and freight traffic handled in the District on the East Coast Main Line and other lines into Newcastle was provided largely by Gateshead and Heaton Depots, although also there were Blaydon Depot for the Carlisle line and Borough Gardens for local freight traffic in the NE Co. Durham area nearby. Gateshead's 1954 allocation comprised 35 4-6-2s, 12 2-6-2s, 8 4-6-0s, 3 4-4-0s, 7 0-6-0s, 7 2-6-2Ts, 1 0-6-2T, 18 0-6-0Ts, 1 0-4-4T and 2 0-4-0Ts. Incorporated in the Depot complex was Gateshead Locomotive Works, secondary to Darlington Works but lasting into the 1960s.