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  2. Nine Hours Strike - Wikipedia

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    Possibly more by good luck than judgement, the strike happened at a time when engineering was booming, it was a time of prosperity, huge profits were being made by the masters, order book were over-full and as a consequence labour was extremely scarce even without a strike. Victory was therefore almost assured by the strikers right from the start.

  3. Fawdon Factory - Wikipedia

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    The council voted by 38 to 25 to let Rowntree buy the land. The Labour group on Newcastle City Council had opposed the sale, as the Labour group wanted the land to be leased, not bought. [4] The site would make Smarties, Fruit Gums and Fruit Pastilles. The factory would cost around £2m, and was hoped to open in March 1958. It had 22 ovens. [5]

  4. Busways Travel Services - Wikipedia

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    The sale of the Tyne and Wear Omnibus Company to Busways proved highly controversial with TWOC's 187 workers, with the company's Gateshead depot announced to close and workers being issued "precautionary" 90-day redundancy notices, [7] [8] [9] before later being made to apply for new jobs at Busways; only two workers out of 33 applicants would ...

  5. Geordie - Wikipedia

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    When referring to the people, as opposed to the dialect, dictionary definitions of a Geordie typically refer to a native or inhabitant of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, or its environs, [16] an area that encompasses North Tyneside, Newcastle, South Tyneside and Gateshead.

  6. Northumberland Line - Wikipedia

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    The 2016 GRIP 2 study envisaged a project (at the time referred to as the Ashington, Blyth & Tyne Line), at an estimated cost of £191 million, [19] involving construction of new or reopened stations at Northumberland Park (for interchange with the Tyne and Wear Metro), either Seghill or Seaton Delaval, Newsham, Blyth Park & Ride, Bedlington ...

  7. Heaton railway station - Wikipedia

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    In 1839 the Newcastle and Shields railway was opened [1] and this line later became the direct line to the coast from Newcastle upon Tyne, although at that time the line terminated in Carliol Square and not at Newcastle Central station.

  8. Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead - Wikipedia

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    The borough forms part of the Tyneside conurbation, centred on Newcastle upon Tyne. At the 2021 census, the borough had a population of 196,154. It is bordered by the local authority areas of Newcastle upon Tyne to the north, Northumberland to the west, County Durham to the south, Sunderland to the south-east, and South Tyneside to the east.

  9. Riverside Branch - Wikipedia

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    The branch line, which was designed to more closely follow the shoreline of the Tyne, serving the rapidly developing industries and communities, was authorised in 1871. It was built along a route "that consisted for the most part of tunnels, bridges, cuttings, retaining-walls, and embankments". [2] The branch line opened on 1 May 1879. [3]

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