{"id":2117,"date":"2024-05-31T16:04:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T15:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2024-05-31T16:59:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T15:59:55","slug":"northumberland-line-still-no-opening-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/northumberland-line-still-no-opening-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Northumberland Line &#8211; Still No Opening Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It remains our understanding the line will open this summer with Seaton Delaval, Newsham and Ashington stations. Other stations will follow later. We don\u2019t as yet have a specific date though I have pointed out to the County Council that under the railway\u2019s \u201cT-12\u201d rule, if passenger trains are to start running on Monday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> September for instance, then tickets should go on sale at midnight of 13<sup>th<\/sup> June \u2013 less than 2 weeks away. Meanwhile, Northern has issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.railbusinessdaily.com\/northern-new-rail-timetable-coming-next-month\/\">press release<\/a> saying that Northumberland Line train times are now built in to the National Rail database. I have asked them for a copy of the times in table or similar format but they have said this is not yet available. Hobbyist however will find the times in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtimetrains.co.uk\/\">realtimetrains<\/a> \u00a0though this does not make clear the trains will not be stopping at Northumberland Park, Bebside or Bedlington initially or clarify when passenger services will actually start running. It would appear however that once service starts, the first train will depart Ashington at 06:00 on weekdays then at 31 and 00 minutes past each hour. This information should be treated with caution as realtimetrains is not an official source of information. Just to be clear, passenger services will not start from <strong>2<sup>nd<\/sup> June<\/strong>, even though the train paths are shown as \u201creserved\u201d from this date (which is the timetable change date). The reluctance to formally share information with SENRUG is a little disappointing given our 19 year history in campaigning for the line, but this close to the opening we prefer to focus on celebrating our campaign success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It remains our understanding the line will open this summer with Seaton Delaval, Newsham and Ashington stations. Other stations will&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-2117","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\/2117","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=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions\/2119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}