2 meetings with Northern today. The first, with Mike Paterson, Regional Director, was to express SENRUG\u2019s concern that Northern has not been able to run any services at all on recent strike days. Worse than that, the information Northern has published has been completely misleading – the absence of any \u201cemergency\u201d timetable has led customers into thinking that a full service was running when the reverse has been true. Neither has there been any information on the availability of rail tickets on Arriva busses. This has prompted SENRUG to complain to Northern MD David Brown. \u201cMust try harder\u201d is SENRUG\u2019s verdict. The second meeting was with Northern\u2019s Station Adoption team, who are keen for SENRUG to find groups willing to undertake art or gardening projects at the stations in SENRUG\u2019s area, for which Northern have funding available. So please, any group interested in getting funding for work at Northern\u2019s stations at Morpeth, Cramlington, Pegswood, Widdrington or Acklington please contact SENRUG in the first instance. At this meeting, we also had a robust discussion on why Morpeth\u2019s CIS sometimes \u201cmisses\u201d trains completely (see entry for 29th July 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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