{"id":2185,"date":"2024-11-17T12:40:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T12:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2024-11-17T12:50:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T12:50:39","slug":"northumberland-line-possible-opening-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/17\/northumberland-line-possible-opening-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Northumberland Line &#8211; Possible Opening Date?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s still no official word from the Programme Board, however &#8220;Mr Awkward&#8221; has posted the following comment on one of my earlier posts: &#8220;<em>Is Newsham station opening delayed again? The reason I ask is Ashington and Seaton Deleval are on the National Rail website, Newsham isn&#8217;t. You can look at journeys from Ashington to Newcastle from the 15 December and The Journey details show trains calling at Ashington and Seaton Delaval but not Newsham.&#8221; <\/em>I find that a very reasonable question, not awkward at all. However, before we all get too excited about the possibility of passenger trains from Ashington starting from 15th December, I&#8217;d point out that whilst train times are now uploaded onto National Rail, fares are not, so it&#8217;s still not possible to buy a ticket. Some of us will remember that as the previous summer 2024 opening date approached, train times were posted on Realtime Trains &#8211; but then hastily removed a few days later. Nevertheless, I certainly think the current communication policy which seems to be say nothing at all needs to be re-examined. This close to the &#8220;December 2024&#8221; opening promise, we really should have a clear date and the ability to plan Christmas journey&#8217;s by train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s still no official word from the Programme Board, however &#8220;Mr Awkward&#8221; has posted the following comment on one of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2185","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\/2185","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=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}