{"id":2359,"date":"2025-08-09T20:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T19:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2025-08-27T21:08:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:08:03","slug":"half-a-million-passengers-on-the-northumberland-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/half-a-million-passengers-on-the-northumberland-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Half A Million Passengers On The Northumberland Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small scale celebration at Ashington today, and as there was an extra \u201czero\u201d to hold up, I was able to squeeze into the photo (for the 50,000 a few months ago, I wasn\u2019t invited to be one of those holding up number). Also a useful opportunity to catch up with Jason Wade, Regional Director at Northern, Glen Sanderson, Leader of Northumberland County Council, and Ian Lavery MP for Ashington and Blyth.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2360\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2360\" style=\"width: 396px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/25-08-05-NL-500-000-Passengers-NCC-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"A group of people including SENRUG Chair Dennis Fancett holding a sign saying five hundred thousand in front of a Northumberland Line train at Ashington station\" width=\"396\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/25-08-05-NL-500-000-Passengers-NCC-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/25-08-05-NL-500-000-Passengers-NCC.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celebrating 500,000 passengers on the Northumberland Line. Photo courtesy of Northumberland County Council<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small scale celebration at Ashington today, and as there was an extra \u201czero\u201d to hold up, I was able&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-2359","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\/2359","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=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}