The LNER Encyclopedia

The site or Greenesfield N.E.R. Works - now a business and housing development pays homage to the N.E.R. CMEs:



Part of the old works buildings:

Behind where the photographer is standing in the second picture was one of the erecting shops. There were three bays to this shed remaining. During the late 1980s they were used as follows:- the bay nearest the road in the picture had been used as a road vehicle repair shop for Lynx/National Carriers(NCL) parcel lorries. there were pits dug into the floors at 45 degree angles to the long walls. at the Gateshead M.p.d end there was the remains of a huge chimmney about 15-20' high within the shed. in the late eighties B.R S&t used this bay to store cable and concrete troughing for the E.C.M.L electrification. all four walls in this bay were stone. Bay 2 was split in half the Mpd end was used by the D.O.M.E.E stores(Director of Mechanical Electrical Engineering) the other half had been a paint shop for NCL and then used as a cable store by the S&T and finally as a workshop for the DOMEE. Located in this bay was a air pressure vessel with an L&NER makers plate of 1924 Stratford. This also had a LNER locomotive pressure gauge attached,this survived funnily enough Bay 2 and 3 were originally open as the roof was supported in the middle by cast iron columns. This was later covered by a partition wall as bay 3 was also a DOMEE workshop. the rest of the bays had been demolished and the side had been bricked up as could be seen from passing trains. Rails survived outside the building in the picture but most had been tarmaced over. the rails were surrounded by wooden setts, no rails survived in the sheds.