Middlesbrough which to place new coal staithes. As a result, in 1829 he and a group of Quaker businessmen bought the Middlesbrough farmstead and associated estate, some of land, and established the Middlesbrough Estate Company. Through the company, the investors set about the development of a new coal port on the banks of the Tees nearby, and a suitable town on the site of the farm (the new town of Middlesbrough) to supply the port with labour. By 1830 the S&DR had been extended to Middlesbrough and expansion of the town was assured. The small farmstead became the site of such
Middlesbrough bus station Park End and Saltersgill. Buses also run from Middlesbrough to Darlington, Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Scarborough and Whitby. Middlesbrough bus station Middlesbrough bus station serves the town of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. The bus station is situated in Middlesbrough Town Centre off Newport Road. It was opened in 1982 at a cost of £5.3 million by the actress Pat Phoenix once of Coronation Street, and stands partly on the site of the previous bus station which belonged to the United bus company. There are 25 stands at the bus station and the main operators there are Arriva North East and Stagecoach