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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 [citation needed].
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Sculpture in the square's centre. Trinity Square is a shopping and leisure centre in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England.The new centre was constructed on the site of former multi-storey car park and shopping complex going by the same name, which originally opened in 1967.
Gateshead 10 was built in 1925 by the Gateshead and District Tramways Company, one of a batch of single-deck trams built by their Sunderland Road works from 1920 to 1928. Built to a length of 48'8", it was fitted with longitudinal seating for 48 passengers with front exit and rear entrance doors, two Brill 39E reversed maximum traction bogies ...
The engine, like its predecessor, was used to haul the Mechanical Engineer's saloon. Originally a 2-2-2 WT , side tanks were added 1886, and around this time it received the number 66. In 1892 Aerolite was rebuilt into a 4-2-2 T , destroying much of the original engine.
The main roof section, above the engine, was unusual in that it was a translucent fibreglass moulding, which provided light into the engine room, despite the body's small windows. This lightweight moulding could be raised upwards by pneumatic cylinders when stationary, to act as an air vent before needing access to the engine.
Steve ran the Bivouac club, which was based above the Duke of Wellington pub, until 2009. “I knew the city needed a little venue that nurtured new bands and Lincoln didn’t have one,” he says.
The machine room, showing one of Armstrong's original three-cylinder oscillating hydraulic motors. The Swing Bridge stands on the site of the Old Tyne Bridges of 1270 and 1781, and probably of the original Roman Pons Aelius bridge. [2]