{"id":2216,"date":"2024-12-02T10:45:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T10:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2025-10-26T20:47:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T20:47:57","slug":"december-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/02\/december-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First passenger train runs on 15th December 2024, leaving Newcastle at 07:57 and arriving at Ashington 08:31, with an intermediate stop at Seaton Delaval. The other stations remain under construction, with the project team announcing Newsham will open early in the the new year, with Bedlington, Blyth-Bebside and Northumberland Park all promised for later in 2025.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2235\" style=\"width: 724px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2235\" src=\"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DF-and-Northern-RD-Jason-Wade-5-credit-Northern-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"Dennis Fancett and Northern;s Regional Director Jason Wade shaking hands in front of a train information display showing Ashington\" width=\"724\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DF-and-Northern-RD-Jason-Wade-5-credit-Northern-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DF-and-Northern-RD-Jason-Wade-5-credit-Northern-1024x825.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DF-and-Northern-RD-Jason-Wade-5-credit-Northern-768x619.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DF-and-Northern-RD-Jason-Wade-5-credit-Northern-1536x1237.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DF-and-Northern-RD-Jason-Wade-5-credit-Northern-1600x1289.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DF-and-Northern-RD-Jason-Wade-5-credit-Northern.jpg 1865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Dennis Fancett and Northern&#8217;s Regional Director Jason Wade shaking hands in front of the CIS Display. Photo credit: Northern (edited)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First passenger train runs on 15th December 2024, leaving Newcastle at 07:57 and arriving at Ashington 08:31, with an intermediate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2216","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\/2216","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2401,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions\/2401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}