Catalogue description Gateshead Locomotive Works official photographs

There are handwritten registers and some reference prints in binders in the Reading Room.

Gateshead Locomotive Works

• Railway transport
• Transport engineering

Gateshead Works was built for the Stockton & Darlington Railway between 1862 and 1863, but within a few months had been taken over by the North Eastern Railway, which made it the headquarters of its Locomotive Department. At first Gateshead operated as the NER's main works, producing twice as many locomotives as the nearby Darlington Works. In 1908, however, Darlington produced its first large passenger engines and two years later new building ceased at Gateshead, where new development was restricted by railway tracks and the River Tyne. Gateshead Works, which from 1910 onwards concentrated on heavy maintenance, was closed in 1959.

Photographs of Gateshead Locomotive Works feature in the Darlington official collection (see Darlington Locomotive Works Collection, held by the NRM).