North Eastern Railway
The North Eastern Railway ( NER ) was a British railway company that existed from 1854 to 1922. The routes with a total length of 2828 km were mainly in Yorkshire , County Durham and Northumberland in the north-east of England , occasionally also in Cumberland and Westmorland .
history
The NER was founded in 1854 when the four companies York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway , York and North Midland Railway , Leeds Northern Railway and Malton and Driffield Railway merged. The South Durham & Lancashire Union Railway was added in 1862, the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1863 and the West Hartlepool Railway in 1865 .
The most important stations were York (headquarters and location of the largest mechanical interlocking in Great Britain with 295 levers) and Newcastle Central . The NER also owned docks at Hull , Hartlepool , South Shields and Middlesbrough . In order to be able to offer direct trains between London and Edinburgh , the NER cooperated from 1860 with the North British Railway and the Great Northern Railway ; the three companies procured rolling stock with uniform technical specifications in order to enable continuous operation on the East Coast Main Line .
The NER played a pioneering role in the electrification of the British railway network under the technical direction of Vincent Raven . In 1904 she equipped three suburban lines around Newcastle upon Tyne for electrical operation (Newcastle Central – Wallsend – Whitley Bay – Gosforth, Newcastle Central – Benton and Byker – Percy Main). These lines, known as Tyneside Electrics , received power rails with 600 V direct current . Today these routes are part of the Tyne and Wear Metro .
In 1916, continuous operation on the Shildon – Newport route with 1500 V direct current began. Ten four-axle locomotives with a central driver's cab were available for operation. Although the operation was successful, the electrification work did not progress due to the First World War . After the war, the East Coast Main Line should also be electrified with 1500 V direct current, for which Vincent Raven ordered an express locomotive with the number 13 from the Darlington Works in 1920 , which was tested on the Shildon – Newport route.
With the entry into force of the Railways Act 1921 on January 1, 1923, the NER went on in the London and North Eastern Railway . The project to electrify the East Coast Main Line was abandoned.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Shildon - Newport Electrification. In: spellerweb.net. Retrieved May 1, 2016 .
- ↑ a b York - Newcastle Electrification. In: spellerweb.net. Retrieved May 1, 2016 .