{"id":2486,"date":"2026-03-05T23:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2026-03-05T23:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:34:37","slug":"february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/february-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northumberland Park station opens on 22nd February 2026, providing a connection to the Metro for passengers travelling to Gosforth, Whitley Bay and the southern side of the Coast Loop. The station also offers a bus connection to Silverlink, Cobalt and the Shields Ferry through service 19 &#8211; following representations from SENRUG the times of bus 19 will be changed from 22nd March to better connect with the trains.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2487\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2487\" style=\"width: 712px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/N-Park-opening-D-Shaw-7-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo of a Northern train standing at the platform taken from the top of the overbridge. Behind the train, the Metro platform is just visible.\" width=\"712\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/N-Park-opening-D-Shaw-7-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/N-Park-opening-D-Shaw-7.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Northumberland Park station now open. Credit Dave Shaw<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northumberland Park station opens on 22nd February 2026, providing a connection to the Metro for passengers travelling to Gosforth, Whitley&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2486","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\/2486","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=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2491,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions\/2491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}