{"id":2282,"date":"2025-03-07T23:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T23:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2025-03-25T23:32:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T23:32:49","slug":"newcastle-berwick-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/newcastle-berwick-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle &#8211; Berwick Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a brief catch-up with Ian Lavery, MP for Ashington and Blyth, I was off to County Hall for a meeting with Network Rail and the County Council, to discuss our proposals for the Newcastle &#8211; Berwick local service, to run every hour both ways, and to call at every station. It seems our original Feasibility Study must be revisited (we&#8217;ve had Covid in the meantime, and of course we now know what the new East Coast Main Line timetable will look like from December 2025), but I&#8217;m convinced these service will continue to be both commercially viable and technically feasible. The meeting was positive enough, though I was concerned Network Rail couldn&#8217;t articulate the process for getting a new service established. But hopefully it is now clearly understood this is a clear requirement from local stakeholders and we can expect some action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a brief catch-up with Ian Lavery, MP for Ashington and Blyth, I was off to County Hall for a&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-2282","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\/2282","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=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}