Historic Electric

Recently I've been sent links which may be of interest to the electrically minded of South Shields :

Still from a newly published YouTube video of the Harton system in the late 1980s
- here shewing AEG No.9 running alongside an early Metro at Chichester
(still, link & video courtesy of Richard Youl) 

The view from the concrete bridge on River Drive at South Shields in 1950,
 shewing predecessors of Metro, as recently featured in the Chronicle Live
(photo Armstrong Trust)

..... & on the subject, I notice that the Electric Railway Museum must move (see 9 July) because its site south of Coventry is to be redeveloped