{"id":2528,"date":"2026-03-29T22:24:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2026-03-29T22:24:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:24:29","slug":"bedlington-station-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/bedlington-station-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedlington Station Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was great to be part of a good crowd of people today on the platform at Bedlington, to welcome the first passenger train for 62 years. I joined the train along with SENRUG Deputy Chair Andrew Carmichael and we both went up to Ashington and back. Looking forward to the formal opening ceremony tomorrow.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2529\" style=\"width: 482px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2529\" src=\"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26-03-29-Bed-stn-opening-Andrew-Carmichael-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"SENRUG Chair Dennis Fancett getting on a train at Bedlington Station.\" width=\"482\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26-03-29-Bed-stn-opening-Andrew-Carmichael-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26-03-29-Bed-stn-opening-Andrew-Carmichael-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26-03-29-Bed-stn-opening-Andrew-Carmichael-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26-03-29-Bed-stn-opening-Andrew-Carmichael-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26-03-29-Bed-stn-opening-Andrew-Carmichael-3-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26-03-29-Bed-stn-opening-Andrew-Carmichael-3-1600x1067.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Dennis Fancett, Chair of SENRUG, gets on the train at Bedlington station<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was great to be part of a good crowd of people today on the platform at Bedlington, to welcome&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-2528","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\/2528","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=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2530,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions\/2530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}