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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.

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AddressFormer G Scott Cars site, under the railway, Railway Quarter
StreetWellington Street
Open to the publicYes
ConfidenceC · confirmed
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NZ 2542 6344 OS grid · 54.96502, -1.60444

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A long red sandstone railway viaduct with seven arches along a new paved forecourt, each arch painted with a large colourful mural built around one letter, together spelling Gateshead: an orange and blue G, an A with the Angel of the North among flowers under the words Caput inter nubila condit, a T with portraits under Game changers, self made innovators, an S with hands making a heart, and further panels in pink, orange and blue
The Gateshead Arches murals, September 2026.

The council cleared the former G Scott Cars garage site under the railway and turned its seven arches and forecourt into a space for pop-up food stalls, performances, workshops and events through the year, funded by the North East Combined Authority. The arch fronts were painted by a team led by Mark One87 of Elements Arts, with the artists Sune and Ida4, working from ideas gathered from Gateshead College students, the Gateshead Recovery Partnership, Orbis Community and local businesses. Each arch carries one large letter, so that read together they spell the town’s name, and each is filled with the town’s people and places: the Angel of the North, with the borough motto Caput inter nubila condit, “it hides its head among the clouds”; portraits of local innovators under the words “game changers, self made innovators”; and two hands making a heart. The murals were unveiled at a pop-up event on 12 April 2026, and the space was officially launched in May 2026.

In use

The forecourt’s first big summer outing was the Gateshead Food Festival on Sunday 2 August 2026, which filled the space in front of the murals with gazebos, food vans and a cookery theatre and spilled round to the square by the Tyne Bridge approach.

Blue gazebos and food stalls along the forecourt in front of the painted arches, with visitors walking across the new paving on a sunny day

The Gateshead Food Festival in front of the murals, 2 August 2026.

Food vans, a cookery theatre stall and crowds on the paved square, with the Glasshouse roof and a red-brick corner building behind

The festival from the other end, with the Glasshouse behind, 2 August 2026.

Which arch, if any, is to be let as a unit, and the programme of future events, are not yet recorded.

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