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  2. North Tyneside Steam Railway - Wikipedia

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    The North Tyneside Steam Railway and Stephenson Steam Railway are visitor attractions in North Shields, North East England. The museum and railway workshops share a building on Middle Engine Lane adjacent to the Silverlink Retail Park. The railway is a standard gauge line, running south for 2 miles (3.2 km) from the museum to Percy Main. The ...

  3. List of museums in Tyne and Wear - Wikipedia

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    Bowes Railway: Springwell: City of Sunderland: Railway: Preserved operational standard gauge cable railway system built to transport coal to boats, built by George Stephenson in 1826 Castle Keep: Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle upon Tyne: Historic house: Keep and remains of the medieval castle Centre for Life: Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle upon ...

  4. Beamish Museum transport collection - Wikipedia

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    The museum's restored North Eastern Railway coach was moved to the Tanfield Railway, also nearby, but it returned to Beamish in 2012 for restoration and use. LNER 68088 at Beamish, 2011 Resident locomotives include NER Class C1 freight engine No. 876 (British Railways Class J21 No. 65033), built at Gateshead in 1889.

  5. Newcastle College - Wikipedia

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    Rail Academy: Opened in 2014, Newcastle College Rail Academy (located in Gateshead) was built to address skills shortage in the rail industry, developed in conjunction with the National Skills Academy for Railway Engineering (NSAR) and employers such as Network Rail. The £5 million site has on-site overhead lines, switching, crossings ...

  6. Gateshead railway station - Wikipedia

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    The station was opened by the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway on 18 June 1844. [1] The Team Valley Line from Gateshead to Durham via Chester-le-Street opened to passengers on 1 December 1868, and on that day, a second pair of platforms at Gateshead opened to serve that line; these were known as Gateshead West , and the original pair ...

  7. King Edward VII Bridge - Wikipedia

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    The King Edward VII Bridge is a railway bridge spanning the River Tyne between Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead, in North East England. It is a Grade II listed structure. [ 1 ] The King Edward VII bridge has been described as “Britain’s last great railway bridge”.

  8. Tyne and Wear - Wikipedia

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    A minority report proposed amalgamation of Newcastle, Gateshead, Wallsend, Jarrow, Felling, Gosforth, Hebburn and Newburn into a single "county borough of Newcastle-on-Tyneside". The 1937 proposals never came into operation: local authorities could not agree on a scheme and the legislation of the time did not allow central government to compel one.

  9. Gateshead and District Tramways Company - Wikipedia

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    The Gateshead and District Tramways commenced services on 22 October 1883 with steam-hauled tramcars operating on three routes centred on Gateshead High Street. In 1897, British Electric Traction took ownership of the company [2] and the Gateshead and District Tramways Act of 1899 authorised the modernisation and electrification of the system.