11. The Brandling Junction Company was busy enlarging the scope of their business by means of private railways. 12. It had been constructed at the joint expense of the Pontop and South Shields and Brandling Junction Companies. 13. The Brandling Junction Railway was conceived as a mainly mineral railway, but passenger traffic was surprisingly buoyant. 14. The remainder of the Brandling Junction Railway and of the Tanfield Waggonway are no longer in railway use. 15. Newcastle City Council has designated three conservation areas within Jesmond; Brandling Village, South Jesmond and Jesmond Dene. 16. The "'Brandling Junction Railway "'was an early railway in County Durham, England. 17. The Brandling Junction Railway itself opened in stages from 1839, running from Gateshead to Wearmouth and South Shields. 18. Their Greenesfield station had been in use for some time and the Brandling route passenger traffic was transferred there. 19. The Brandling 's fortunes declined and the estate was sold to the Middleton Estate & Colliery Company in 1862. 20. The Brandling Arms pub on the High Street has its own local edition of My Monopoly, using Gosforth locations.