{"id":2473,"date":"2026-01-23T18:22:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2026-01-26T18:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:33:14","slug":"northumberland-line-celebrates-1-million-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/northumberland-line-celebrates-1-million-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Northumberland Line Celebrates 1 Million Passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just over 1 year after it first opened, and with 2 stations still outstanding, there was a small gathering at Blyth Bebside station today to commemorate 1 million passengers being carried on the Northumberland Line. An amazing accomplishment seeing as we still have 2 further stations to open (confirmed date for Northumberland Park 22nd Feb). Myself and committee members Andrew Carmichael and Trevor Watson attended. It also afforded a good chance to catch up with various people including Ian Lavery MP, Cllr Glen Sanderson, Leader of the Council, and various others from Northern, Nexus and Council staff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2474 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Northumberland-Line-1m-Passengers-Celebration-Blyth-Bebside-credit-Northern-Railway-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Northumberland-Line-1m-Passengers-Celebration-Blyth-Bebside-credit-Northern-Railway-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Northumberland-Line-1m-Passengers-Celebration-Blyth-Bebside-credit-Northern-Railway-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Northumberland-Line-1m-Passengers-Celebration-Blyth-Bebside-credit-Northern-Railway-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Northumberland-Line-1m-Passengers-Celebration-Blyth-Bebside-credit-Northern-Railway.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>(Photo credit Northern Railway)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over 1 year after it first opened, and with 2 stations still outstanding, there was a small gathering at&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-2473","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\/2473","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=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2475,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions\/2475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}