BRANDLING RAILWAY, a railway in the N of Durham. It connects the towns of Gateshead, South Shields, and Sunderland, and makes a junction with the Newcastle and Carlisle railway; was opened in September 1839; took its name from the projector, Robert W. Brandling, Esq. of Low Gosforth; and is now incorporated with the Northeastern railway.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))