Tyneside Electrics

[PinzaC55]

1937 electric stock - http://www.northumbrian-railways.co.uk/ ... -electrics

[Jonathan1973]

I'll attempt to post the picture, along with a couple of others. They are taken from various sources - some are scans of photocopies, of old newspaper articles, so the quality is not great. I didn't know about the parcels hoist - perhaps a decent large scale map of the station would show it?

Regards,
Jonathan

[PinzaC55]

Here's my shot of West Monkseaton entrance in 1978 http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinzac55/3642573620/

[third-rail]

until a few years ago it was still possible to see the wartime camaflage paint on the concrete columns under the station i assume the whole station was painted this way to hide it from enemy aircraft as it was only a few years old at the outbreak of war

[CVR1865]

That is a grand Facade.

[Trestrol]

Thanks for those Jonathan. The rear viev picture is similar to the one in the LNER Magazine so is probably an official shot, I hadn't realised how close the road was to the entrance originally. The parcel hoist May have gone from the parcel office through the floor? as there dosen't seem to be any evidence of it externally on the building. West Monkseaton has just had a coat of paint this year so is looking very smart although they have painted it a creamy shade of white and not white which i think was original.

[Jonathan1973]

Trestrol - you are welcome. I appreciate that this is getting rather off-topic, but do you have the text of the article to which you refer? I would be interested to learn a bit more about West Monkseaton. Bill Fawcett refers to it in his 'Bell and Beyond', but I have not found much more about the station.

Best wishes,
Jonathan

[Trestrol]

Trestrol - you are welcome. I appreciate that this is getting rather off-topic, but do you have the text of the article to which you refer? I would be interested to learn a bit more about West Monkseaton. Bill Fawcett refers to it in his 'Bell and Beyond', but I have not found much more about the station.

Best wishes,
Jonathan

Sorry i don't, I came across it while looking through a collection of LNER Magazines at the North Yorkshire Moors Railways archive Library and i forgot to take note of the issue number as well! Not come across "Bell and Beyond" Do you have any idea when the passenger ramps were added?
Trestrol

[Jonathan1973]

Trestrol,

I am not sure when the ramps were added. I have a newspaper cutting from April 1957, which refers to the construction of 'covered platforms', by British Railways. The accompanying photo seems to show the southern-most ramp under construction. 'Bell and Beyond' is the third of Bill Fawcett's books about North Eastern railway architecture. It is well worth a look (along with Vols. 1 & 2), if you haven't seen it already.

Hope this helps.

Jonathan

[billdonald]

Looking at the photo in "Merseyside Electrics"
The roof detail is difficult to make out but the roof cabling? on the model appears to be excessive. It does not appear to be as prominent as on the model and may not run as far towards the ends as depicted.
Also the beam over the coupling hook between the buffers is not apparent in the photo.
There are also small marker lights in the bottom corners of the yellow end panel.
No cabling visible to what look like inter unit connections.
What look like 2 grab handles angled over each buffer.
2 lamp brackets midway up the yellow end panel.

I can't comment on the roof details but this is a very accurate model of E68000 in the condition in which it ran on the Tyneside lines.

The removal of the drawgear rubbing plate and the control/ power jumpers occurred due to their redundancy when the unit was transferred to Merseyside - there were no other EPB-type units there.

The other items mentioned were added by Meols Cop, presumably in the light of operational experience requirements.

Bill

[Bryan]

I agree it does look good.
My comments were just pointing out the differences I could see.
I have no idea when they changed or why.

As for Meols Cop I was part of the recovery crew from Steamport to take the doors off the end of the shed and re erect them across Steamport shed.