Teesside Steelworks Redcar entrances, situated on the A1085. The site is adjacent to Teesport that was used for iron ore, coal, and other raw material imports, and steel exports. The site is served by the British Steel Redcar railway station, which opened on 19 June 1978. There is no public access to and from the station (being located on private land), it has a very limited service provided by Northern. Teesside Steelworks The Teesside Steelworks was a large expanse of steelworks that formed a continuous stretch along the south bank of the River Tees from Middlesbrough to Redcar. At its height there
Teesside Refinery a year. Today the Teesside Refinery is a crude oil reception, storage and trans-shipment installation. Operations consist of both processing and tanker loading facilities and cover a site. Stabilised oil is stored in a tank farm at Greatham. A corridor containing pipelines, communications and utility services links the two sites, operated jointly by 270 employees. In its 35 years of operations, the terminal has processed over five billion barrels of oil, seen 15,000 ships visit their jetties and had a first-class safety record. The plant has also been run with a downtime of less than 24 hours in 30 years.