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\u00a0… And A Link To Christmas!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n Electrified in the early 1900s …<\/p>\n … re-equipped in 1937 …<\/p>\n … and re-re-equipped with BR EPB stock similar to that used on the Southern Region.<\/p>\n Then demoted to diesel …<\/p>\n … and finally made into a magnificent Metro and thus electrified all over again.<\/p>\n Obviously the Metro was more efficient and more frequent than any of its predecessors but (sadly?) lacking the “character” of the old days. Here is the “real” Jarrow station!<\/p>\n And here is where that station building was!<\/p>\n But it is another part of the “transport” infrastructure that fbb is featuring in this blog. So, using steam, electricity, diesel oil and electricity you could get from Jarrow to Newcastle and thus across the Tyne; or to South Shields and across the Tyne by ferry to North Shields.<\/p>\n But there was another way!<\/p><\/div>\n The pontoon and landing stage was down the bottom there …<\/p>\n Next to the cobbled access road is a circular building that is the entrance to the Tyne Foot Tunnel, opened in 1951.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n There was also a lift, seen beyond the flying saucer entrance building …<\/p>\n … there!<\/p>\n As part of a modernisation programme, the escalators no longer escalate, but one has been replaced by a sloping lift.<\/p>\n The car ferry (of sorts) …<\/p>\n … continued until the Tyne (Road) Tunnel opened in 1967. At first a “normal” two lane road …<\/p>\n A second bore was later added as on this modern map. It is part of the A19<\/p><\/div>\n Jarrow Metro station is bottom left. As you walk to the foot tunnel, you will pass the ventilation gubbins for its modern motoring addition.<\/p>\n Bit, if you do choose to toddle (or hog!!) across the Tune, do take care. The directions signs are hardly lavish …<\/p>\n It’s on that lamp posy and fbb will be kind and enlarge it!<\/p>\n Enjoy you troglodyte Tyne transit!<\/p><\/div>\n He lived from 672 to 735 AD.\u00a0 As well as his book on the History of England, he also campaigned for a “sorting out” of the system of calendar years. “What you need to do,” said Bede, “is to start the calendar from the Birth of Jesus Christ. And so they did.<\/p><\/div>\n His successor was Joshua.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p><\/span><\/div>\n \u00a0Josh’s challenge was to occupy the land that God had ordained. And we all know that Joshua fought the battle of Jericho and the walls came tumbing down<\/span>.<\/p>\n
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