Re: Riverside line
- From: "Mastrid" <mastridaire@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 7 Feb 2006 00:33:29 -0800
Keith wrote:
The Riverside Trains had a header on the front carriage with the word
'Workmen'
How politically incorrect would that be today. I wonder if they had to put
newspapers on the seats so it wouldnt dirty the clothes of the hoi polloi
using the carriages later from the Coast to Town!
Jim Scott wrote:
Can anyone recommend a publication of photographs/maps/text of the old
Riverside Line from Newcastle to the coast.
Here is the photo caption from the book:
"WILLINGTON QUAY. This outpost on the North Tyneside Riverside branch
served chiefly as a shipyard workers halt on a line of primarily
industrial character. Services commenced in 1879 and its last
surviving section, from St Peters to Byker Junction, retained to serve
a scrapyard at St Peters, closed on Friday September 25 1987. Our past
illustration shows the last regular passenger train about to leave
Willington Quay on July 20 1973. Under the decaying awning, a
hand-chalked notice reads "No more waiting here after today". The
first section to be lifted was between NE Marine sidings and the
junction at Percy Main. In 1987 (the now picture) the trackbed was
desolate and abandoned, only the Howard-Doris construction sheds in the
distance providing a positive link between the two pictures".
(From "British Railways Past and Present No. 4 The North East" by Peter
J Robinson and Ken Groundwater published by Silver Link 1987, reprinted
1988.)
M.
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