{"id":2362,"date":"2025-08-12T21:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2025-08-27T21:07:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:07:52","slug":"no-concessions-on-new-lner-timetable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/no-concessions-on-new-lner-timetable\/","title":{"rendered":"No Concessions on New LNER Timetable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unproductive meeting with LNER today. There have not been either able or willing to make any changes to the cut-backs Morpeth will experience from this December, though there will be a minor concession for Berwick. Encouraging noises about engaging more closely with Northumberland stakeholders for the next timetable revamp, but I think we all knew this could be 10 years at least before implementation. So all the benefits of the May 2011 Eureka timetable, where SENRUG worked closely with LNER\u2019s predecessor East Coast Trains to develop, are to be undone, including the ability to arrive in London for 09:40. \u00a0Amazingly, there were a few basic facts LNER didn\u2019t seem to appreciate \u2013 such as there\u2019s little benefit to Northumberland passengers of having 3 trains from Newcastle to London per hour, if there\u2019s only 1 local service per hour to Newcastle. LNER\u2019s own ticketing system puts you on the next available train, and if either of the other 2 trains are cheaper, you\u2019d need to split ticket to get that advantage. Also a failure to appreciate the needs of 1<sup>st<\/sup> class passengers, or those travelling to places such as Peterborough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unproductive meeting with LNER today. There have not been either able or willing to make any changes to the&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-2362","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\/2362","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=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}