The LNER Encyclopedia

It is 50 years today since the lner/metcam electric articulated stock was withdrawn from service

Oh dear i guess i must be getting old as i can clearly remember them, especially at night at north end of Central where you would see an occasional blue flash among the comings and goings.

Early Tyneside Electrics.

There are two or three early D/C units that turn up on a video/dvd called Steam On 35mm 1930s 1940s 1950s & 1960s introduced throughout by the late John Huntley a film & railway enthusiast. The b&w film sequence that dates from the 1930s features several D/C units around Newcastle Central station that was filmed from a flat wagon that had a film camera mounted on the flat wagon and was coupled to the front of a steam loco and features a run over the King Edward bridge through the maze of crossings just before Newcastle Central station and then on through the station and then turning left at the north end of Newcastle Central station and traversing the maze of crossings at that end of the station before heading onwards towards Manors station and then through Manors station before the film sequence ends. I presume the film was produced for loco drivers as part of there 'road learning' knowledge of the Newcastle area?.

Mickey

I suppose it must date me, but can remember seeing them at Central station in their blue and cream livery. This would have been 1947 when I lived in Jesmond and spent much of my school holiday spotting on the station. School was in London so those journeys back and forth cemented my love of anything ECJM.