{"id":2494,"date":"2026-02-23T23:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2026-03-21T21:42:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:42:47","slug":"northumberland-park-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/northumberland-park-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"Northumberland Park Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northumberland Park (technically &#8220;Northumberland Park Tyne &amp; Wear&#8221; since there is already a Northumberland Park station in London) opened yesterday, with a brief opening ceremony today. I couldn&#8217;t be at either myself, having been in Aberdeen, but SENRUG committee members Andrew Carmichael and Dave Shaw were there, and I have updated our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/Re-open-AshingtonBlythTyneLine-posts.php\">Northumberland Line Campaign Chronology<\/a> to reflect the opening of this, the penultimate station in the scheme as currently signed off.<\/p>\n<p>Later on Monday, back from Aberdeen and after my French class, I had a brief catch-up with Alex Hornby, Commercial Director for Northern, mainly to press our case for bringing Cramlington &amp; Morpeth into the Metro Fare Zones scheme (thus equalising the fares with Northumberland Line stations), and for the Morpeth to Bedlington extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northumberland Park (technically &#8220;Northumberland Park Tyne &amp; Wear&#8221; since there is already a Northumberland Park station in London) opened yesterday,&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-2494","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\/2494","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=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2514,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}