I walked down to the Manors Metro Station and purchased by all day ticket. I was headed for "the coast". The tannoy announcements on the Metro don't say "trains for North Sheilds, Tynemouth and Whitley Bay". Its is simply "the coast". A local kept asking me she was on the right platform, but given she couldn't understand my accent the response went away with the clouds. The train proceeded along the north bank of the Tyne. The Byker Wall block of flats could be seen in glimpses. We passed Wallsend, home of the eastern end of Hadrians Wall. Signs on the platform directed visitors to Segedunum, the remains of the Roman fortifications at the very extremity of their empire. The fort was abandoned circa 400 AD and having been swallowed by terraced houses now demolished, has
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