Gateshead TMD (Gateshead)

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Gateshead TMD was a railway Traction Maintenance Depot situated in Gateshead, England. The depot was closed in 1991. 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.

Remaining railway activity:
The only remaining railway activity on the site is the line which connects the junctions leading to the bridges, and the Tyneside IECC which controls train movements on the East Coast Main Line between north of Northallerton and south of Morpeth. The area to the south of Northallerton is covered by York IECC and to the north, Morpeth Power Signal Box takes over. The IECC stands at the west end of the site, near the lines leading to the King Edward VII bridge. Just to the north of the IECC, despite the line having been closed for over a hundred years, a girder bridge which formerly carried the Redheugh Branch still stands near the viaduct carrying the ECML and Newcastle-Carlisle line. Most other TMDs in the area have also closed, mainly due to the decrease in goods and mineral traffic in the latter half of the 20th century, with only Heaton TMD and South Gosforth car sheds (now used for the maintenance of the Tyne and Wear Metro rolling stock) still in operation, although the Tyne Yard at Lamesley retains some facilities for freight locomotives. Gateshead Railway Club opposite the former entrance to Gateshead Station (now Aligeez pizza shop), near the southern end of the High Level Bridge has survived, and The Central bar on the opposite side of the viaduct carrying the line to Sunderland has memorabilia relating to the area's railway history on the walls, including some Gateshead (52A) shed plates from a steam locomotive.