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LNER Tyneside electric units
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Metro-Cammell· introduced in 1937 in Tyneside
what is it?
The LNER electric units were electric multiple units that ran on the Tyneside Electrics, a suburban system around the English city of Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1937, the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) received articulated twin passenger electric units to replace the NER electric units that had been built in 1904–15 by the North Eastern Railway. The order including some single-unit motor parcel vans and motor luggage vans.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- 34.1 m long: about 8 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 64
- kind
- Electric multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Metro-Cammell
- operators
- London and North Eastern Railway, British Rail, North Eastern Region of British Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- 161 kW
- formation
- 2-car articulated sets
- length
- 34.1 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q12858750, Wikipedia: LNER Tyneside electric units (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.