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    The Newcastle and North Shields Railway opened in June 1839 from a temporary terminus in Carliol Square in Newcastle upon Tyne to North Shields. The railway...
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    North Shields (/ʃiːlz/ SHEELZ) is a town in the borough of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England. It is 8 miles (13 km) north-east of Newcastle upon...
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    York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway (YN&BR) was an English railway company formed in 1847 by the amalgamation of the York and Newcastle Railway as well...
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    Newcastle station (also known as Newcastle Central and locally as Central Station) is a railway station in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom...
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  • Square railway station served the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, from 1839 to 1850 on the Newcastle and North Shields Railway. The...
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    between 1834 and 1882, one of the oldest parts being the Newcastle and North Shields Railway, which opened in 1839. During 1904, in response to tramway...
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  • survey for a private mineral railway from Seghill to Howdon. Nicholson had been engineer of the Newcastle and North Shields Railway, which was shortly to open...
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  • The North Tyneside Loop refers to the railway lines in North Tyneside from Newcastle upon Tyne via Wallsend, North Shields, Whitley Bay, Backworth, Benton...
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    built in the nineteenth century and closed on 11 August 1980. In 1839 the Newcastle and Shields railway was opened and this line later became the direct...
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    Tynemouth and St James via Wallsend. The station, which was named Shields until 1874, was opened on 22 June 1839 by the Newcastle and North Shields Railway. Although...
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    Railway (1842) Newcastle and Berwick Railway (1847) Newcastle and North Shields Railway (1845) Great North of England Railway (1850) York and North Midland...
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    Wear, after Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland and Gateshead. Historically within the county of Durham, South Shields is south of North Shields and Tynemouth...
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    Go North East (most areas) and Stagecoach in Newcastle (Benton, Forest Hall, Killingworth and Wallsend). The Shields Ferry links North Shields to South...
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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...
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    Wallsend Metro station (category Former North Eastern Railway (UK) stations)
    the Newcastle and North Shields Railway. This later became part of the North Tyneside Loop, served by the North Eastern Railway. Following closure for...
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    Tyneside Electrics (category Transport in Tyne and Wear)
    in the 1860s by the Blyth and Tyne Railway (B&T), and the line through Wallsend by the Newcastle and North Shields Railway in 1839. The portion of the...
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    South Shields railway station was the main railway station for South Shields, in Tyne and Wear, North-East England. The station was located on Mile End...
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    Ouseburn Viaduct (category Buildings and structures in Newcastle upon Tyne)
    of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Designed by architects John and Benjamin Green, it was originally built in the late 1830s for the Newcastle and North Shields Railway...
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  • with P&SSR in 1842 Newcastle and Berwick Railway incorporated 1845, amalgamated with Y&NR in 1847 Newcastle and North Shields Railway incorporated 1836...
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  • Railway Museum, York. A passenger station opened on the Newcastle and North Shields Railway around 1840. It closed on 11 August 1980 to allow conversion...
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    In 1974, Newcastle became part of Tyne and Wear. The local authority is Newcastle City Council, which is a constituent member of the North East Mayoral...
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    South Shields. St James is the western terminus of the Yellow Line and precedes Monument. Trains run towards the coast via North Shields. Newcastle has...
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    Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was a railway company that operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863. The world's first public railway to use...
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    the Newcastle Blitz led to an acceleration in housebuilding across Tyneside after the war was over. In pictures: The Blitz in North Shields and Jarrow...
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  • Great Western Railway (see Baulk road), Ulster Railway, Newcastle and North Shields Railway, Slamannan Railway (part of), Hull and Selby Railway (two thirds...
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    372 mm) near Newcastle upon Tyne. The Brunton and Shields Railway was constructed by Benjamin Thompson on behalf of the Grand Allies and inaugurated in...
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    High Level Bridge is a road and railway bridge spanning the River Tyne between Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead in North East England. It was built by...
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    Western Railway, as well as use on the Newcastle and North Shields Railway, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway to a design by John Hawkshaw, and elsewhere...
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    Geordie (category North East England)
    area of North East England, especially connected with Newcastle upon Tyne, and sometimes known in linguistics as Tyneside English or Newcastle English...
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  • engineer C.F. Weibeking. The two he built for the Newcastle and North Shields Railway, at the Ouseburn and at Willington Quay remain in use, though the timbers...
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