Today, myself, SENRUG Committee Member Dave Shaw, and Andy Comfort – a journalist from Rail Magazine walked the route of the proposed Northumberland Line extension from the A189 Spine Road rail bridge into Newbiggin. Just to demonstrate no roads to cross and plenty of room for a simple station, either in the footprint of the former one, or more preferably slightly to the north and just behind the Sports Centre. This followed a rather negative and poorly informed paragraph from a different journalist a month or so back, which prompted me to offer to the Editor to send someone to come and walk the route with me. They did! So thanks to Rail for listening to what I said and actioning it, and we’re looking forward to Andy’s article soon appearing in about 2 week’s time.
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I’m more interested in when the remaining stations are opening and an extension to the ECML to open routes up to Scotland as that could potentially take some traffic off the A1 and make Edinburgh a possible commute. Good jobs are so scarce now so we need more routes to centres of employment.
Excellent idea to extend the line to Newbiggin and will put it back on the map. Turn it back to the busy seaside town it used to be and hopefully breath new life into the shops cafe’s restaurants Hotels and pubs there. I’m an x Bedlington resident and we used to have days out there on the beach in the 60s when it was thriving.
The article is now published. Please get hold of Rail issue no 1054 – it’s an excellent 4 page article and we are grateful to the magazine for responding to our suggestion to come and walk the route with us.