Invention and Engineering

Gateshead TMD

Gateshead TMD was a railway traction maintenance depot situated in Gateshead, England. The depot code was 52A during the steam era and GD later on. It was known, along with the adjacent locomotive works, as Greenesfield or Greensfield, after a Mr. Greene, from whom the North Eastern Railway (NER) bought the land. It was built in 1844 as a passenger railway station and in 1854 it became instead the locomotive repair works for the NER. In 1909, the locomotive works at Greenesfield was the largest single employer in Gateshead with over 3,300 workers In 1958, all BR locomotive depots on Tyneside, Wearside and in Northumberland became sub-sheds of Gateshead. The depot closed in 1991. Housing now occupies the site, now known as Ochre Yards. The street names reflect the site's history, with Worsdell Drive and Fletcher Road named after former locomotive superintendents of the NER.

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• ▸Francis Herbert Wenham
• ▸Kepler-18
• ▸Ed Roberts (computer engineer)

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