LNER electric units
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In 1937 the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) built a fleet of articulated electric multiple unit passenger trains for use on the Tyneside electric lines, which linked the English city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne with the coast at North Shields and South Shields.
These replaced older trains that had been introduced by the LNER's constituent company, the North Eastern Railway, in 1904, when it opened Britain's first provincial electric railway.
In the 1960s changing demographics saw the more lightly used sections of the Tyneside electric network being closed and the rest of the system de-electrified the electric trains were withdrawn.
No LNER Tyneside EMUs were preserved.
In the 1980s much of the route served by these trains was re-electrified as the Tyne and Wear Metro.
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