The Anonymous Widower

Latest Northumberland Line station Set To Open

The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on Place North East.

This is the sub-heading.

Newsham Station in Blyth will be up and running on Monday, 17 March, allowing passengers to travel to Newcastle in 21 minutes.

These four paragraphs add detail.

It follows on from the reopening of the line in December, when Ashington and Seaton Delaval were brought back into action.

The line has been closed to passengers for almost 60 years, although freight still ran along the tracks.

Morgan Sindall Infrastructure-Rail is the main contractor on the almost £300m project.

Figures released by Northern, which operates the services, show around 50,000 passenger journeys were made on the line in the first month, a figure that has now surpassed 110,000.

Those passenger numbers seem very good and I suspect we’ll see London Overground Syndrome arriving.

It’s already starting to look like the project has been £300 million well spent and we should be looking for more similar projects.

March 6, 2025 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | London Overground Syndrome, Newcastle Station, Newsham Station, Northumberland Line (Newcastle And Ashington/Blyth)