{"id":1855,"date":"2023-03-06T14:41:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T14:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2025-10-26T20:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T20:51:18","slug":"march-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/06\/march-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State for Transport Mark Harper gives final authority for re-opening the line at a ceremony at the Newsham Station site, to which SENRUG is invited. It is confirmed passenger trains will be running by Summer 2024<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Mark Harper (front left) with NCC Leader Cllr Glen Sanderson (front right), Ian Levy MP for Blyth Valley (back left) and Dennis Fancett Chair of SENRUG (back right) at the announcement to confirm the formal opening at Newsham. Photo Credit Northumberland County Council<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1870 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/23-03-06-DF-Sec-of-St-GS-IL-at-Newsham-credit-NCC-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/23-03-06-DF-Sec-of-St-GS-IL-at-Newsham-credit-NCC-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/23-03-06-DF-Sec-of-St-GS-IL-at-Newsham-credit-NCC-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/23-03-06-DF-Sec-of-St-GS-IL-at-Newsham-credit-NCC-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/23-03-06-DF-Sec-of-St-GS-IL-at-Newsham-credit-NCC-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/23-03-06-DF-Sec-of-St-GS-IL-at-Newsham-credit-NCC-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/23-03-06-DF-Sec-of-St-GS-IL-at-Newsham-credit-NCC-1600x1067.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Secretary of State Mark Harper (front left) with NCC Leader Cllr Glen Sanderson (front right), Ian Levy MP for Blyth Valley (back left) and Dennis Fancett Chair of SENRUG (back right) at the announcement to confirm the formal opening at Newsham. Photo Credit: Northumberland County Council<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State for Transport Mark Harper gives final authority for re-opening the line at a ceremony at the Newsham&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-re-open-ashington-blyth-tyne-line"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}