A growing beer scene at the end of the High Level Bridge in Gateshead is bringing a real buzz to an area dubbed the 'railway triangle'.
Currently two new craft micropubs are taking shape under the Wellington Street arches and due to to join the scene where their bigger neighbours The Central and Station East - two of the town's oldest pubs - are already long established in the atmospheric quarter under the adjacent railway bridge. Microbus will opening on Monday while Axis, a few arches up, will be following suit in coming weeks.
Station East, directly opposite The Central which reopened after a revamp in 2020 and has just been named a 2022 CAMRA pub of the year, has just itself reopened following repairs for storm damage and is delighted that soon there will be new pubs on the doorstep helping making up their own pub crawl. Doug Musgrove, who with business partner Ed Robson took over the tenancy of Station East after it closed during lockdown, is hugely positive about the future, despite the unexpected five-week closure of the pub just 15 days after they opened it in January.
