page_title: Tyneside Electrics
hierarchical_section_title: Tyneside Electrics
caption_attribution_description: English: South Tyneside Electric train at Newcastle Central, 1938View NE at the west end of Central Station, Platform 11: a train for South Shields waits, made up of ex-NER/LNER third-rail electric (600v) reconditioned stock (after fire damage), which worked on the North Tyneside lines before the South Tyneside line was electrified in 1938 - shortly before this photograph. Glimpsed on the left is the cab-side of No. 4482 'Golden Eagle', one of the then new Gresley A4 Streamliners.
context_page_description: The Tyneside Electrics were the suburban railways on Tyneside that the North Eastern Railway and the London and North Eastern Railway electrified using the third rail system. The North Tyneside loop was electrified from 1904 onwards and formed one of the earliest suburban electric networks; the South Tyneside line to South Shields via Pelaw was electrified in March 1938. British Railways converted these lines to diesel operation in the 1960s: the line to South Shields in January 1963 and the North Tyneside lines in June 1967 when the electrical supply infrastructure and the rolling stock had become life expired. In addition, the system was losing passengers and suffering from costly vandalism. Since the late 1970s, much of the system has been converted to form the Tyne and Wear Metro.
context_section_description: The Tyneside Electrics were the suburban railways on Tyneside that the North Eastern Railway and the London and North Eastern Railway electrified using the third rail system. The North Tyneside loop was electrified from 1904 onwards and formed one of the earliest suburban electric networks; the South Tyneside line to South Shields via Pelaw was electrified in March 1938. British Railways converted these lines to diesel operation in the 1960s: the line to South Shields in January 1963 and the North Tyneside lines in June 1967 when the electrical supply infrastructure (which dated from 1935) and the rolling stock (which dated from 1937) had become life expired. In addition, the system was losing passengers and suffering from costly vandalism. Since the late 1970s, much of the system has been converted to form the Tyne and Wear Metro.
caption: A 1920-built South Tyneside NER electric unit at Newcastle Central station in 1938.
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