Tyne & Wear Transport Flashback

1988: ‘Mini’ Busways service 10 pictured at a busy #SouthShields Market.

📸 Alan Urquhart

1990: #Sunderland Station

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1979: Marshall B47D bodied AEC Swift is seen as Tyne & Wear PTE fleet no. 1854 at Prospect Row, #Sunderland, with service 108 for the Docks.

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1993: Pilgrim Street, #Newcastle upon Tyne

1986: The Shieldsman, Shields Ferry, on a sightseeing tour of #Newcastle Quayside during the Cutty Sark Tall Ship Race.

📸Tony McCann

1995: Busways Mercedes minibuses, such a familiar sight on the streets of Tyneside during the 1990’s.

1986: 47643 waits to leave #Newcastle Central with the 11:24 Newcastle to Liverpool Lime Street.

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1981: #Newcastle Central Station.

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1997: Busways was chosen by Stagecoach as the first location for trials of the Magic Bus concept. The purpose of the operation was to compete with emerging smaller competitors, and provide a low-fare alternative to the main services.

📸 Brian H

1977: A Tyne and Wear PTE Scania Metropolitan is pictured on Neville Street as it passes #Newcastle Central Station.

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1940's/50's #Newcastle upon Tyne

📽️North East Film Archive

1950’s: #Newcastle Central Station

1964: Pilgrim Street, #Newcastle upon Tyne.

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1963: A Metro-Cammell DMU calls at the up platform of Washington station

📸 Stations UK

1940's: Newcastle City Centre

📽️ North East Film Archive

11th August 1980: Tyne & Wear Metro trains pictured on the first day of passenger service at Tynemouth, Benton & Monkseaton stations.

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A 'Tyneside electric' driver at South Gosforth, 1960s

Image: Armstrong Railway Photographic Trust

1984: Tyne & Wear PTE buses pictured on Percy Street as they pass the Handyside Arcade, #Newcastle upon Tyne.

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1976: North Shields Railway Station, pictured four years before its closure and rebuild for conversion to the Tyne and Wear Metro system.

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1981: Queen Elizabeth II Bridge pictured shortly after it’s official opening.

📸P. G. Wright

1977: A Tyne & Wear PTE Leyland Atlantean standing at temporary bus stop on Blackett Street, #Newcastle upon Tyne

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1969: Blackett Street - New Bridge Street, #Newcastle Upon Tyne

1986: Worswick Street bus station, #Newcastle upon Tyne.

📸 Trevor Ermel

1996: Blackett Street, #Newcastle upon Tyne.

📸 Trevor Ermel

1980's: A wintery scene in #Newcastle upon Tyne, 2 Scania Metropolitans and a Leyland Atlantean are pictured on Bewick Street in the snow.

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1977: Demonstrating this was once a large station, a Class 101 DMU is seen calling at platform 8 of Manors, Newcastle, with an anti-clockwise service around the North Tyneside loop.

📸 Graeme Phillips

1986: With deregulation looming soon after, this photograph shows how integrated public transport was on Tyneside as a Metro arrives at Wallsend alongside a bus standing in the adjoining bus station. Both in matching corporate PTE livery.

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1985: #Newcastle upon Tyne

📸 North East Film Archive

1980: #Gateshead Metro station during the final stages of construction.

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1990: National Garden Festival, #Gateshead.

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