Greenesfield Station was built by George Hudson's Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway Company close to their incline, which linked to Carlisle (HER 3447). They had gained parliamentary powers to build a station and a "high-level" bridge across the Tyne (see HER 4132). The station was completed by June 1844 to a design by architect George Townsend Andrews of York. It was designed to impress - the principal range of buildings was 108m long with an Ionic colonnaded façade to the north. At the east end was a two-storied hotel. The platform was paved with slabs of York stone and was accessed via a high arched doorway west of the hotel. This opened into a train shed, built of squared ashlar with Ionic pilasters and wrought iron roof trusses and columns made by Hawks Crawshay. The lower courses of the southern and eastern walls still survived in 2001. The line was opened publicly on 18th June 1844 with the arrival of a train from Euston carrying the Hon. H.T. Liddell and other dignitaries. The journey had taken 8 hours and 11 minutes. Greenesfield Station closed to passenger traffic in August 1850 when the Central Station in Newcastle was opened. It was converted into railway workshops for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway (HER 3488). The hotel became offices. A new station was built on the curving viaduct approach to the High Level Bridge c. 1885-6..

Glass works, marked as disused on the second edition OS map.

Goods Shed. Built between the mid-late 19th century. Still extant in 1970.

Engine Shed. Built between the mid-late 19th century. Demolished between 1950-1970.

North Eastern Railway Works

Steel Works

Brandling Junction Station, station and offices. The earliest published plan depicting the Oakwellgate Station in any detail is Oliver 1844. This shows that three lines came from the west - one leading to the station terminus buildings and another to a long narrow structure on the west side of the raised mound, possibly an engine shed. The third line is shown continuing east and entering the Park Iron Works. Two tracks approached the station from the east, one serving the Station terminus and the other leading onto the incline. The 1st edition Ordnance Survey shows the station in use as a Goods depot, the terminus buildings and engine shed apparently enlarged and 13 sidings. The Park Iron Works were still supplied by rail, reduced to a short spur line connected to the outer of the two lines across the coal drops by a turntable. Forty years later (OS 2) the terminus building had been demolished and the number of sidings increased to 15; the spur to the Park iron Works had disappeared, perhaps because the manufacturing complex was now served by its own internal railway system. Subsequently there was no significant change to the layout of the Goods depot until it was dismantled and replaced by Jenning's scrapyard {2}. The Gateshead depot of the Brandling Junction Railway was situated on a high artificial mound east of Oakwellgate. The original intention had been to build the depot at a lower level on the same site, but the decision to carry the branch line from Redheugh Quay across Gateshead on a viaduct instead of a tunnel, necessitated a change in the plans for the depot. The level of the mound had to be raised from 12 feet to 32 feet, most of the filling material being cinders from the nearby Hawk's works. The mound was surrounded on three sides by a brick and masonry retaining wall, that on the north side having 12 arched recesses which were intended to be let as warehouses; a further arch, of larger size, was formed over an inclined plane leading down to a coal drop on Gateshead Quay. A broad inclined carriageway led up from Oakwellgate to the north-west corner of the depot, and at the same corner was "a sort of tower which encloses a spacious staircase intended for those who arrive on foot". This wooden staircase cost £515 15s 10d (Felling station (SMR 1013) cost £175!). In addition to the passenger terminus of the B.J.R. there was room in the depot area for a carriage shed, warehouse, and engine repair shed. The Oakwellgate depot was not used for passenger traffic for many years. The local trains may possibly have been diverted to the new station of the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway at Greenesfield, which was opened in 1844, and both stations were soon superseded by yet another new one situated on the southern approach viaduct to the High Level Bridge {3}.

A ropery is clearly shown on Oliver's 1830 map. It later becomes the site of a soap factory. This was established by Stoddart and Co in 1795 and was soon owned solely by a former partner Anthony Hood. In 1799 Hood introduced a rope-making machine, which had been patented by William Chapman in 1798. This technological innovation eventually superseded the earlier ropewalks and marked the beginning of the growth of ropemaking in Gateshead.

Holzapfel's Paint Works

Portland Cement Works are built on the site of an engine and shipbuilding yard.