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Mémoire2cité @memoire2cite.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Mémoire2Cité Le chat noir 🐈‍⬛ des cités modernes.. Mémoire2Ville le Logement Collectif dans tous ses états.. Histoire & Mémoire de l'Habitat Rétro Banlieue / Renouvellement Urbain Urbanisme HLM & cartes postales twitter.com/Memoire2cite @ flickr.com/search/?text... @ www.tumblr.com/blog/memoire...

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is an interesting take. Newcastle's trams, like many other cities', were arguably disposed of because of their lack of flexibility and need for more infrastructure upkeep. I think electric buses would be better on roads personally.

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Was great to share some of my research on #Tyneside 's historic #transport infrastructure with professionals in civil engineering practices. I learned a great deal about the challenges facing modern engineering today too!

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LCC municipal @lccmunicipal.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

One long thread I did at the other place was on shopping centre postcards. So, get ready for it again - I’ll try and add one each day. Tragically, they are all filed alphabetically. So, we start in Accrington, and an odd-looking clock outside Dixons in the Arndale Centre:

Accrington Arndale Centre clock. It looks like a large flower on a blue and yellow striped pole whose petals have opened up to reveal some kind of scene - presumably this happens on the hour? Photo by Gordon Flanagan, published by Photographic Heritage

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

@northumbriauni.bsky.social's latest member of staff is working right up to Christmas! #northumbria #university #drwho #doctorwho #dalek

Dalek in Northumbria university boardroom

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is going to be great! Well done to the organising team who've put in so much work! 👀👇 @northernenvhistory.bsky.social

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Hidden in plain sight. This is a great little article on some North East infrastructure 😍

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Was great to present at Cambridge's Economic and Social History Workshop with @absham.bsky.social on (In)Visible Infrastructures and gendered perspectives on economic and social life on Tyneside.

(In)Visible Infrastructure: Three Centuries of Women's Social and Economic Participation in Tyneside

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Just a random relic of the #ner / #lner #tynesideelectrics that sits in my garage. It's an insulator from the old third rail but more importantly it's Royal Doulton's contribution to #railway #history as it carried electricity on the country's first electrified mainline in 1904 ⚡🚃

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT: We will be holding free CPD sessions aimed at professionals working in transport planning, policy and delivery looking at applying qualitative research to our understanding of historic and contemporary transport infrastructural development. Info:⤵️ drive.google.com/file/d/1pE1l...

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I am enjoying that the Metro ventilation has been untouched by the new HMRC building in Newcastle and awkwardly sits there. #infrastructure #transport #newcastle #tyneandwearmetro #hiddeninplainsight

Metro ventilation shaft and new HMRC office

Artwork on HMRC building covered by Metro ventilation

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

A bit of #railwayarchaeology at Hampstead Heath with some nice #brutalism of the Royal Free Hospital behind! #architecture #C20 #LNER #modernism #london

Image of a gable ended painted with an LNER advert

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

July 1821, George Stephenson reported 'I have minutely examined the County over which your Railway is intended to pass, and I find it practicable that a Line may be attained' #onthisday 1825, the passengers embarked on the first railway journey on the Stockton and Darlington Railway #railway200

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Happy 150th birthday Heaton Train Sheds! Thanks to Northern Trains for organising a nosy around the traincare centre. Was great to see various generations of ECML HSTs on display! #railway200 #heaton #newcastle #railway #northern #transporthistory #gresley #deltic #hst #highspeedtrain #highspeedrail

Sir Nigel Gresley back home at Heaton Sheds

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

45 years ago today, Tyne and Wear PTE decided that Gateshead Railway Station should close as the Metro came on stream saying 'the role of the railway station will be substantially reduced' and recommended that 'Gateshead B.R. Station be withdrawn'. #onthisday #northeasthistory #transport #metro

Picture of Gateshead Station from disused-stations.org.uk

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Was great to share an aspect of my research with the Urban History Group yesterday, it's been a great conference so far! Many thanks to the @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social organisers!

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Had a fantastic time at this year's European Society of Environmental History conference in Uppsala, Sweden! Such a varied selection of panels and a met some great people! Thank you @eseh.bsky.social organisers!

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

It's been a while since my last post but it's important to wish a loved one happy birthday. Happy birthday @my-metro.bsky.social ! 🥳🚇 Image: Newcastle Evening Chronicle, 07.08.1980

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

It was tremendous fun to share some of our Life Stories of Infrastructure research philosophies, methods and findings at Newcastle City Library. I enjoyed sharing work in an interesting and engaging way and was great to have a sell-out public show! #researchengagement #transport #history #mobilities

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I am delighted to announce that more tickets have been released for a public workshop I am hosting at Newcastle City Library next Thursday evening. Come along if you want to hear about the #tyneandwearmetro and share your history of transport! #transporthistory www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/life-stori....

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Life Stories of Transport Infrastructure

People make transport infrastructure, but how do they move on them? A public presentation of PhD research.

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Had my first ride on a new #Metro! Was great to have a much quieter and smooth journey. I must say, however, where are the hanging handles. People were falling over onto eachother as the train accelerated and decelerated. Seems like an oversight to me! #tyneandwearmetro #train #publictransport

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Part three of my northern #archive tour, #Liverpool. Never been to an archive with a better view! More libraries need a roof top terrace, well done Liverpool Record Office. Sadly I couldn't quite see the #Queenswaytunnel that I'd been reading about! #archives #history #transporthistory

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Part two of my northern archive tour has taken me to #Manchester! A #monorail study amongst some #rapidtransit goodies today! Not something I anticipated but a fun surprise. #archive #1960s #transport #history

Cover of a monorail feasibility study for Manchester

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

“This is the railway that devolution built. A railway designed for local needs… It’s symbiotically Tyne & Wear’s railway, but the Metro is Britain’s innovation railway too. It’s local but it’s not parochial.” This short love letter to the Tyne & Wear Metro is well worth a read.

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Britain's most progressive railway - Jonathan Bray

With the opening of the Northumbria line and the arrival into service of new Metro trains it feels like a good time to tell the story of Britain’s most progressive urban rail network… There’s two key...

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Part one of my northern archive tour, Sheffield! Excited to see what's in store today! Good to be back in my one time home too. P.s. Only slipped over on the ice once! #archive #sheffield #northernengland #yorkshire

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

My review of the #NorthumberlandLine: Great to see a historic line back in use and the old stations being resurrected but the single track workings do cause some delays and we were held at a few reds. At least Northern kept us happy with free mince pies! #transport #tyneandwear #christmas #railway

Double Arrow sign for Ashington station.

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

So the new Metro can't even run the full system as the #GatesheadHighway falling to pieces. Meanwhile, Tyne Bridge being repaired, A1 Bypass being worked on, Tyne Tunnels reduced to a tunnel at weekends, work to start on Redheugh Bridge, no evening ferries. At least the pedestrian tunnel has a lift.

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Turns out this is happening today! I timed that well! #onthisday #transporthistory

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

It's also wonderful to see that my favourite road albeit from morbid fascination, #gatesheadflyover, is likely to meet it's end. It's nice to know the entire history of something! It's alarming that concrete has a shorter life-span than knowing how to deal with traffic in Gateshead however...

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

It's great to see that "a" new #Metro will be running passenger services before the end of the year but I can't help but think that politics has outweighed practicality much like opening of the half finished #northumberlandline.

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Join me in helping protect at least one of Britain's monuments of the carbon age and modernity by signing @c20society.bsky.social's petition here to save examples of cooling towers: chng.it/QzvL7SKHTr Photo cred: Raymond McBride

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David Hope @davidhope.ca · 09/12/2024

Adding stock-image children to a bike lane design should be a necessary planning step.

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RMT Union @rmtunion.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

RMT is devastated to learn that one of their members who was assaulted working at Ilford railway station on Wednesday, has tragically died. The Customer Experience Assistant for MTREL was assaulted on Wednesday evening and police announced their death yesterday.

Graphic featuring an image of two tea-light candles burning against a black background with white text that reads: “We are deeply saddened by the passing of our member, who died following an attack while at work.

“The whole union sends its condolences to their family, friends and colleagues at this awful time and everyone’s thoughts at RMT are with them.

“We will keep a close eye on legal proceedings and will comment further in due course when it is appropriate.”

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Great to be invited to the Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade's annual Smoking Concert last night! Fantastic organisation saving lives along the coast and the Tyne. #northeast #tynemouth #lifebrigade #smokingconcert #prior #tyne Disclaimer photos from last year's Smoker!

Interior of the Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade Watchhouse

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

"One of the major impediments to traffic flow in Northumberland Street during the #christmas period is the heavy pedestrian movement [...] it is suggested that two temporary footbridges be erected across Northumberland Street" - 1967 #archive #transporthistory Photo: @tynesnapper.bsky.social's X

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

120 years ago, Tyneside's first NER #electricrailway began service on the North Tyne Loop which now forms a large part of the #TyneandWearMetro system today. There were three simple tenets for passengers MOVE QUICKLY. TRAVEL OFTEN. TAKE LITTLE LUGGAGE. #transporthistory #railwayhistory #northeast

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Amazingly, each letter was hand designed 1:1 for every station! I'm not sure how I feel about them being painted black over the past few weeks but at least Calvert's design still remains! #designhistory #transport #metro #calvert #type #design For more: foundationpress.org/shop/a-conve...

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Lest we forget paragraph 38 of Traffic in Towns... "within a measurable time some kind of individual jet-propulsion unit will be developed, of which a rudimentary form has already been tried out in the U.S.A" See @trafficintowns.bsky.social #trafficintowns #transporthistory #jetpack

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Happy 61st birthday @trafficintowns.bsky.social ! It's a pleasure of mine to own a copy and there are still paragraphs we can learn a lot from today! #trafficintowns #transporthistory #urbanhistory #history #modernism #architecture #urbanplanning

It's out today... the Buchanan Report - 224 pages about you and your car

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

50 years ago, SOC'EM (Save Our City from Environmental Mess) stated: "in Newcastle 1974 there is a population downtrodden, exploited, unrepresented and ignored. Who are they? They are - we, the people who are pedestrians" - Tyne and Wear Archives, Acc2659/D5079, A Policy Statement from SOC'EM

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Great to have glimpses of the past and future of Tyneside's transport at Felling station! #railways #transporthistory #northeast #tyneside #newmetro #tyneandwearmetro

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Who doesn't enjoy an evening of zine making about their research in the evening. Thanks to the Northern Modern and Contemporary Network!

Zine saying: This is the case of the now classic planning blunder in Gateshead where the A1 dual carriageway flyover was built through the new Chandless housing estate. The result has been that several hundred people are living in an extremely noisy environment all day.

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