The NTSR is one of the only railways to show the development of the railway from its beginnings to the present.
1795 - Willington Quay wooden waggonway - wooden rails and horse-drawn waggons.
1816 - Killingworth Billy, built by George Stephenson at the beginning of the steam age.
1826 - Rope Haulage engine installed at Middle Engine to pull wagons up from the Tyne by rope.
1860's - 1960's - a typical steam hauled colliery railway moving coal to the Tyne.
1914 - NER install tyneside third rail electric railway. One of the first of its type in the UK.
1981 - Tyne and Wear Metro test track opens, to test one of the UK's first new generation light railways.
2022 - New metros on order bringing the urban light railway up to date!
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