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19 hours ago · Tyne and Wear Metro operator Nexus has announced there will be no trains between South Gosforth and North Shields next weekend, to allow for works to be carried out at Whitley Bay. Rail ...
- It opened 40 years ago: The South Tyneside Metro line in 14 ...
It closed in June 1981, for conversion to become part of the...
- It opened 40 years ago: The South Tyneside Metro line in 14 ...
Mar 31, 2024 · It closed in June 1981, for conversion to become part of the Tyne and Wear Metro system. The new South Shields Interchange is home to a permanent cast of Sir Mo Farah’s footprints to mark his...
Mar 26, 2024 · The South Tyneside line was formerly part of the old Tyneside Electric rail network, which the Tyne and Wear PTE took over from British Rail and converted it to allow the operation of Metro...
Aug 22, 2024 · Check out our 10 archive photographs - five from each decade - showing scenes around South Shields in the 1970s and 1980s. World heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali during his visit to...
John Chambers, artist; Sheila Graber, animator, born South Shields, [1] made an outstanding animation about the river Tyne. [2]James Kirkup (1918–2009), poet [3]; Tish Murtha, documentary photographer born in South Shields, best known for her work documenting marginalised communities, social realism and working class life in Newcastle upon Tyne and The North East England.
The Tyne and Wear Metro is an overground and underground light rail rapid transit system [4] [5] [6] serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, and the City of Sunderland (together forming Tyne and Wear).
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Aug 21, 2020 · New stations were built to a template set down by North East architects Faulkner Brown. It brought a high design standard. Margaret Calvert, the country’s leading typographer, was asked to deigns the signs, having previously created the all of the fonts for the UK’s road and rail networks.
