Tyne and Wear metro : North Shields
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North Shields railway station was originally opened in 1839 as the terminus of the Newcastle & North Shields Railway thus making it one of the oldest metro stations in the world. In it present form it was opened in 1982.
I have also films on the public transport systems in Warsaw, Berlin and Moscow.
My channel on you tube : / alanheath is one of the most prolific from Poland. With almost one film per day, one may be forgiven for thinking I do nothing else but I do have a day job as well. My big interest in life is travel and history but I have also placed films on other subjects
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There are a number of films here on the packaging industry. This is because I am the publisher of Central and Eastern European Packaging -- www.ceepackaging.com - the international platform for the packaging industry in this region focusing on the latest innovations, trends, design, branding, legislation and environmental issues with in-depth profiles of major industry achievers. Most people may think packaging pretty boring but it possibly effects your life more than you really imagine!
Central and Eastern European Packaging examines the packaging industry throughout this region, but in particular in the largest regional economies which are Russia, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Austria. That is not to say that the other countries are forgotten, they are not, but obviously there is less going on. However the fact that there are so many travel related films here is not from holidays but from business trips attending trade fairs around the region. Every packaging trade fair is a new excuse to make another film!
I was a frequent user of this station last year and the oddest thing was when a platform was closed and you had to go to Meadowell to get to Tynemouth as the eastbound Metro didn't stop at North Shields.
@alanheath3
Hello, Alan, the British Rail station was rebuilt in 1965 and then rebuilt to a corporate Metro design in 1981.
On a different note, I was in the pictures behind the station the night it stopped showing films in 1981.
The metro runs every 15 mins on each line on sundays. Mornings are less frequent, rather than half hourly each day
I remember that being an old BR train.
@Glenn1967ful I noticed some work was going on there when I was there last in August and September 2011 but I was able to get off then in both directions!
@60103Henry I am no longer there - I am in Warsaw, Poland now!
@alanheath3
No surprises, it's a bingo hall. I live in Whitehaven part of the time and the same thing happened here.
@60103Henry As of 09:00 this morning there were no ticket barriers there. Nexus say that they are going to put them in. North Shields is now being modernised so maybe they will realise this threat!
Have the covered passageways from the station building to the platforms been removed? These were the only remnants from the British Rail era. Funnily enough the station was rebuilt in the sixties following air raid damage, only to be rebuilt again 16 years later.
@Glenn1967ful I thought that by 1981 they had stopped closing cinemas and were reopening them! Thanks for the insight! What happened to the cinema?
@Glenn1967ful I suppose at least the bingo hall preserved the building rather than having it knocked down!
@Glenn1967ful They are still there! So it took 20 years plus for the bomb damage to be replaced? Parts of some stations still look as though they were hit by a bomb - and regretfully it is the most attractive stations!
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