The Midland also had an electrification project, between Lancaster and Morecambe, at 6.6kV ac. (the same as the LBSC system) It opened in 1908. The line was used as a test bed for the 25kV system in the 1950s but closed under Beeching (the present line to Morecambe was built by the LNWR route).
The LBSCR's electric network would undoubtedly have been bigger by 1923 had supplies of equipment from Germany not ceased abruptly in 1914. However, the ac system reached its greatest extent in 1925, with electrification completed to Sutton and Coulsdon, but the entire network was converted to 3rd rail DC by 1929.
The NER's 1500v dc ohle Newcastle-York electrification project did not survive the Grouping, and although one locomotive was built for it in 1922, it was never used, being stored throughout the lifetime of the LNER and eventually scrapped by BR in 1950.
The North Eastern Railway also electrified some sidings on Tyneside in 1902, at 600V, with two shunting engines built to operate on those sidings and on the local 3rd rail network,
In 1915 it also electrified (at 1500V) the original Stockton - Darlington - Shildon route and built ten locomotives for that line. The line was de-electrified in 1935 when the fixed equipment reached the end of its design life, although the locos were stored for potential use on the Woodhead route was was in the process of electrification at the time. During the delay to that project caused by WW2 their condition deteriorated to the point where it was more economic to expand the order for new locos (class 76) instead.
All thirteen NER locos (two Tyneside shunters, ten S&D, one Newcastle-York) survived into BR days, numbered 26500-11 and 26600, but all except the two shunters and one of the S&D locos (kept for shunting in Ilford depot) were scrapped in the early 1950s. The remaining three were retired in the 1960s, when the Tyneside network was de-electrified and the Great Eastern system was converted to AC. One of the Tyneside shunters is in the National Railway Museum
