{"id":1863,"date":"2023-03-06T15:02:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T15:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2023-03-06T17:47:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T17:47:39","slug":"weve-done-it-northumberland-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/06\/weve-done-it-northumberland-line\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve Done It! &#8211; Northumberland Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">18 years of campaigning have finally paid off. Today, I was invited to a special meeting at the Newsham station site where Secretary of State for Transport Mark Harper confirmed the Northumberland line will open. All funding is now in place, and passenger trains will be running by Summer 2024. Particular thanks to Council Leader Glen Sanderson and Deputy Leader Richard Wearmouth, not just for inviting me to the event, but for profiling SENRUG&#8217;s campaigning role in bringing today&#8217;s announcement about, and giving me opportunity to speak and put questions to the Minister.<\/p>\n<p><em><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=\"520\" height=\"346\" 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: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><br \/>\nSecretary 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<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 years of campaigning have finally paid off. Today, I was invited to a special meeting at the Newsham station&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chairmans-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","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=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}