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An independent, resident-run guide to the estate on the old Greenesfield railway works and the arches, pubs and studios below it — for people who live here, people thinking about it, and people visiting.
Residents
Living here
New here? guide, who to contact, getting in and out by car, bins and parking.
Visitors
Visiting
Where to eat and drink, the walk to the Quays, two trails, what's on.
Buyers and renters
Moving here
What each block is like, how the estate is run, prices, transport, the honest caveats.
The district
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- District boundary
- Homes
- Places
- Trail starts
The boundary is ours, not an official one: the railway from the King Edward VII Bridge to the corner of Brandling Street and Oakwellgate, along Cannon Street and down Church Street and Bridge Street to the Swing Bridge, then the river back. Why here.
The blocks
Worsdell Drive
Bittern House
Fifty-eight flats including studios and duplexes; the last of the locomotive-named blocks to launch, in September 2015.
Worsdell Drive
Cameronian
A three-sided block off Worsdell Drive, NE8 2DB. Cameronian Square is the courtyard it wraps around, open on the fourth side to the street, with the residents' parking in the middle.
Worsdell Drive
Colombo
A three-sided block off Worsdell Drive, NE8 2DF. Colombo Square is the courtyard it wraps around, open on the fourth side to the street, with the residents' parking in the middle.
Curzon Place
Curzon Place
The apartment development on Curzon Place, below the estate by the Hilton: run by its own company, Curzon Place Management Company Limited, with Block Living as managing agent.
Fletcher Road
Fairway Court
Forty-nine flats on Fletcher Road.
Half Moon Lane
Half Moon
Six large shared apartments, flats 1–6, above a ground-floor commercial unit at 30 Half Moon Lane: Adderstone's scheme on the site of a former pub, built for students and young professionals.
Greensfield Close
Intento
One of the three four-storey blocks Bellway marketed as Modello, completed from winter 2023. Fronts Fletcher Road; all access is from Greensfield Close.
Fletcher Road
Kenilworth House
Thirty-five flats in a converted stone range of the Greenesfield works on Fletcher Road, two storeys to the street and three on the north side, with arched cast-iron windows and pale-blue doors; run by Ochre Yards One Limited with Kingston Property Services as managing agent.
Greensfield Close
Liscio
One of the three four-storey blocks Bellway marketed as Modello, completed from winter 2023. Fronts Fletcher Road; all access is from Greensfield Close.
Worsdell Drive
Marmion Court
Fifty-four flats on Worsdell Drive.
Worsdell Drive
Midlothian Court
Fifty-five flats on Worsdell Drive.
Greensfield Close
Motivo
One of the three four-storey blocks Bellway marketed as Modello, completed from winter 2023. Fronts Fletcher Road; vehicle access and most doors are on the Greensfield Close side, but flats 46–60 also have a door onto Fletcher Road.
Raven Road
Ochre Mews
Mandale Homes' award-winning conversion of the Grade II listed Boiler Shop of Greenesfield works: 59 homes, flats 1–44 in the listed building and 45–59 in the brick range beside it, with the car park in the vaults. Freeholder Dickinson Egerton (RBM) Ltd, which also runs Hunters Residential Block Management, the managing agent.
Worsdell Drive
Tranquil House
Thirty-four flats on Worsdell Drive.
Worsdell Drive
Trigo House
Forty-nine leasehold flats on the railway side of the estate, each with an allocated parking bay; Network Rail's Raven House signalling centre is directly across the line.
Wellington Street
Wellington House
The Grade II listed brick building on the curved corner of Half Moon Lane and Wellington Street: Bridgewater Interiors' showroom across the ground floor, six flats above.
Worsdell Drive
Willbrook House
The largest block on the estate, with 107 flats, most rated EPC C.
Wellington Street
Worsdell House
The former Gateshead Railway Club, a 19th-century brick building between Wellington Street and Hudson Street, next to the listed Wellington House on the Half Moon Lane corner, converted in 2007 into 25 flats over ground-floor commercial units.
The Railway Quarter
bar and shop
Axis
Craft beer bar and bottle shop in Arch 16 on Wellington Street: nine rotating taps, natural wines from small winemakers and Spanish-style bar snacks.
gallery
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Free contemporary art gallery on the Quays, a fifteen-minute walk along the river.
venue and gallery
The Gateshead Arches
Seven railway arches on the old G Scott Cars site, painted in 2026 with a row of murals that together spell GATESHEAD, and a new paved forecourt used as the town centre's pop-up event space.
pub and restaurant
Lock & Quay
Dog-friendly bar and kitchen on the Gateshead riverside at 1 Pipewellgate, just west of the Swing Bridge, with a terrace looking across the Tyne to Newcastle; food cooked in house, cocktails and a function room.
bar
Microbus
VW camper-themed craft beer bar at 2 High Level Parade, the named run of arches on Wellington Street under the High Level Bridge approach; six handpulls, ten taps, dog-friendly, with live acoustic music on many Sunday afternoons.
restaurant
Raval Indian Brasserie & Bar
Award-winning regional and coastal Indian restaurant in the former Snowball's department store on Church Street, by the Tyne Bridge, with floor-to-ceiling windows onto the Newcastle skyline.
Trails
Trail · 50 minutes · 2.4 km
The Raven trail
Sir Vincent Raven ran the Greenesfield works as the North Eastern Railway's last Chief Mechanical Engineer. This walk links his plaque, his road, the signal box that carries his name, the house where he lodged as an apprentice, and the bridges and plaques below.
Trail · 40 minutes · 2 km
Gateshead Riverside Sculpture Trail
Twelve works numbered on the council's own map board, most placed in Riverside Park from the late 1980s, on the slope between High Level Road and the Tyne. Walk it from either end; the stops below run east to west. There are two routes, each with its own map below — a shorter one with a very steep bank, and a step-free one for wheelchairs and buggies.