(05 Aug 2013, 9:22 am)cbma06 wrote(05 Aug 2013, 8:47 am)AdamY wrote(04 Aug 2013, 2:25 pm)gtomlinson wrote Queen Street is going on the market when the new depot is complete. Likely a new housing development
To be honest, I'm surprised it's still there. I know there used to be an engineering department based there but that has long since disappeared. All that's left is the office block and it looks well out of place in a middle of a housing estate. GNE probably could have sold of the land and relocated years ago.
I remember when I used to go down there and the bus depot used by the engineering department was right next to the office block, one of the times when I went down there and Wear Buses 8059 dart was there due to front end accident damage, wasn't the engineering department moved to Saltmeadows road when TWOC depot was purchased.
I don't know if it was moved immediately after purchase (then subsequent sale), but it did move sometime during the 90s. Back when I was at school I had some friends who lived in the Teams area. On the few occasions when I went to visit, I remember seeing recovery vehicles and various bits of old buses dumped around the yard. It's possible that the engineering department had moved to Saltmeadows by this point, but the yard was still being used in some sense.