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3 days ago · Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive. The Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive, branded as Nexus, is an executive body of the North East Joint Transport Committee and is best known for owning and operating the Tyne and Wear Metro. It replaced the Tyneside PTE on 1 April 1974.
- 1 April 1974
- Tyne and Wear
- Nexus House, St James' Boulevard, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Tobyn Hughes, Managing Director, Martin Kearney, Chief Operating Officer
1 day ago · In 1975, the service, which was known as Tyne and Wear Metropolitan Fire Brigade, attended its first major incident when a fire broke out in the top floor flat in Brandon House, Benwell, which housed 31 five-story flats. 103 people, including children escaped the fire after 50 firefighters attended the scene.
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1 day ago · In 1975, the service, which was known as Tyne and Wear Metropolitan Fire Brigade, attended its first major incident when a fire broke out in the top floor flat in Brandon House, Benwell, which ...
2 days ago · These low-slung working boats, mounted with a steam engine that drove two paddle wheels, were a Tyneside speciality – it was the Tyne-built steam tugs, London and the Samson, that pulled HMS ...
2 days ago · "The project symbolises Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service's vision to reduce our carbon footprint and support our local communities." Chief Superintendent Aelfwynn Sampson, Area Commander for South Tyneside at Northumbria Police, also said: "We are really looking forward to joining our blue light colleagues in the new Hebburn Tri-Station ...
1 day ago · Now the steam-tugs too belong to a rusting past, as does so much of the north-east’s shipbuilding industry. The show includes powerful black-and-white photographs by Chris Killip of the last days of Tyneside supertanker-building in the 1970s. By 1979, this Tyne industry would vanish.
4 days ago · Twin towns of Glastonbury. Administrative divisions of England. This is a list of places in England which have standing links to local communities in other countries known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
