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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...
Mar 31, 2024 · Bede Metro station: The station is named after the English monk, the Venerable Bede, who lived and worked not far away at historic Jarrow monastery in the 7th and 8th centuries. Widely regarded...
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...
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).
Mar 14, 2018 · The North Tyneside rail loop was electrified back in 1904, while south of the Tyne, the line to South Shields via Pelaw, had to wait until 1938 before electric trains used it.
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.
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South Shields' place at the mouth of the Tyne with shifting and unpredictable sand bars and channels into the river meant that ships frequently ran aground. Following one such incident the world's first self-righting lifeboat was designed by William Wouldhave in 1790.
