{"id":2605,"date":"2026-10-14T17:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2026-10-17T21:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:29:08","slug":"2-million-passengers-on-northumberland-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/2-million-passengers-on-northumberland-line\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Million Passengers on Northumberland Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I was invited to a very low key event at Newsham station to celebrate that over 2 million passengers have now been carried in the Northumberland Line. I was told the milestone had actually been passed a few weeks earlier in September. Fantastic achievement, and I&#8217;m also pleased to note the County Council are now seriously looking a extending the line to Newbiggin, something that has always been one of SENRUG&#8217;s campaign objectives.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2612 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/NL-2-credit-Les-Pigg-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"Small group of people including SENRUG Chair Dennis Fancett standing on the platform at Newsham station next to a train, and holding a sign saying 2 million passengers\" width=\"529\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/NL-2-credit-Les-Pigg-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/NL-2-credit-Les-Pigg-1024x609.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/NL-2-credit-Les-Pigg-768x457.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/NL-2-credit-Les-Pigg-1536x914.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/NL-2-credit-Les-Pigg-2048x1219.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/NL-2-credit-Les-Pigg-1600x952.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>(Photo credit Les Pigg)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I was invited to a very low key event at Newsham station to celebrate that over 2 million passengers&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2605","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\/2605","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=2605"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions\/2614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}