DMU Operations: North Eastern Region
Monkseaton - Blyth / Newbiggin
Most services to Newbiggin connected with the Tyne Loop electrics at Monkseaton, with the occasional through train via Seghill to Newcastle.
Blyth was also served by some services from Monkseaton, but also by a shuttle to Newsham, a 1 ½ mile journey.
These services ended on 2 November 1964.
Sample Timetables
13th June to 11th September 1960
In the Passenger Services North Eastern Region timetable the Newsham - Blyth shuttle was Table 56 (0.4 mb pdf) and Monkseaton - Blyth / Newbiggin was Table 57 (0.8 mb pdf).
Images
Unknown date
A two-car Met-Camm DMU seen to the north east of Ashington, date unknown. The destination blind displays Newbiggin, that station closed in 1964. Paul Redmond.
Unknown date
A four-car and two-car Met-Camm DMUs, with what seems to be a CCT on the rear. The details came with the negative suggested this was drawing into Backworth station, and with no third rail this would be the route from Seghill, and likey a service from Newbiggin to Newcastle. With the yellow panel and no blue vehicles, the date will be circa mid-1960s. The image was from the Steve Davies Collection. Stuart Mackay Collection.
circa 1964
A four-car Met-Camm DMU sits in Blyth station (Northumberland), circa 1963/4. The station closed in November 1964. Stuart Mackay Collection.
19 March 1964
A BRC&W / Met-Camm twin DMU in Newbiggin station (Northumberland) on 19 March 1964, the year it closed, probably on a service to Newcastle. Stuart Mackay Collection.