{"id":2516,"date":"2026-03-29T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2026-03-29T20:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:47:08","slug":"march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/march-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bedlington station opened on 29th March 2026, this being the final station of the scheme that was signed off by the former Secretary of State in March 2023, and concludes a 3-year construction phase. The Northumberland Line is now fully operational and carrying significantly in excess of forecast numbers. Attention is now turning to additions and extensions to the basic scheme including the Ashington &#8211; Woodhorn &#8211; Newbiggin extension &#8211; full details on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/our-campaigns\">Campaigns<\/a> page) and the need to secure more rolling stock so we have 4-coach trains for every train, every day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2525\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2525\" style=\"width: 736px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26-03-29-Bed-stn-opening-Dave-Shaw-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A train pulls into Bedlington station's northbound platform\" width=\"736\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26-03-29-Bed-stn-opening-Dave-Shaw-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26-03-29-Bed-stn-opening-Dave-Shaw-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26-03-29-Bed-stn-opening-Dave-Shaw-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26-03-29-Bed-stn-opening-Dave-Shaw-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26-03-29-Bed-stn-opening-Dave-Shaw-3-1600x1067.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26-03-29-Bed-stn-opening-Dave-Shaw-3.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>First Train to Bedlington Station. Credit Dave Shaw<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bedlington station opened on 29th March 2026, this being the final station of the scheme that was signed off by&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-2516","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\/2516","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=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2527,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions\/2527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}