Newcastle east end diamond crossings - archive film

[DGH 1]

Thank you for filling in some gaps ( please excuse the pun ). I wish they hadn't gotten rid of the 3rd rail network when they did, i would love to have seen it.

 

[30907]

I read somewhere that apparently the large van area was partly for fish traffic and also the amount of prams being carried, i don't know if they had more new parents on that line during the period than anywhere else or what. I'm not sure if the parcel unit ran to South Shields but i believe when it was dispensed with it was sent over to the merseyrail system.

New parents were everywhere post war (says one of their offspring) and slam-door stock and prams didn't go well together (the SR had parcels vans attached to its push-pull trains round Bournemouth for the same reason! North Tyneside had sliding door stock...

 

[DGH 1]

New parents were everywhere post war (says one of their offspring) and slam-door stock and prams didn't go well together (the SR had parcels vans attached to its push-pull trains round Bournemouth for the same reason! North Tyneside had sliding door stock...

Ah, of course, the baby boomers, i hadn't thought of that, it makes perfect sense now and i didn't realise the SR did that with parcel vans either, thank you.

 

[30909]

Reference prams, remember in the Forties and Fifties a pram was a very large "coach built" item on large wheels not meant to fold or have removable sections, it was only when children were of walking age that they graduated to a "push chair" which was still cumbersome and not that compact. Often the prams or push chairs would be kept outside of the family home because they were so bulky.