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Testun Gwreiddiol (Anodiad: EPW053946 / 505701)
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This is Pelaw Station. The South Tyneside Line was electrified by the London and North Eastern railway in 1937, complete with very modern looking sliding door trains. These featured spaces dedicated to the carriage of prams. It was another 50 years before such facilities became more generally available on UK public transport.
Indeed even in Tyneside there was a set back when British Railway replaced the trains in the 1950s with 'Southern' type slam doors stock. In 1963 BR de-electrified the lines (the new trains returning south) with the remain services operated by diesel trains.
Perhaps the most fitting endorsement of the NER's original electrification policy for the North Tyneside Lines in 1907 and the LNER's extension to the South Tyneside Line in the 1937, is that eventually all of the routes were re-electrified in the early 80s as they became part of the Tyne and Wear Metro network, and once again the north east has set a new standard of suburban rail transport. This was the first of the new generation of light-rail - tramway systems, that has been copied in a number of major cities across Britain. '