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Ashington Track Works
Network Rail and their partners will be working on the track between the two red dots from 9pm on Thursday 20th July until 6am on Monday...
Jul 14, 2023


Watching Brief - Palmersville Dairy Underpass
It's been a couple of weeks since works were completed on the installation of a new underpass at Palmersville Dairy. The underpass...
Jul 11, 2023


Northumberland Park Works Update
From Saturday 8th July until March 2024, there'll be a lane and footway closure on the A186 Rotary Road as a works area will be created...
Jun 29, 2023


Station Yard Car Park Works
From Monday 26th June until Monday 15th September, works will be taking place in the car park at Station Yard (Wansbeck Square) in...
Jun 20, 2023


Palmersville Dairy Underpass Works
Today is a big day for the Northumberland Line as the new underpass to divert a footpath at Palmersville Dairy is being installed. It's a...
Jun 16, 2023


A189 Blyth Slip Road Closure
The Slip Road onto the Southbound A189 adjacent to the Asda store at Blyth will be closed overnight between Monday 26th June 2023 and...
Jun 13, 2023


A1061 Lane Temporary Lane Restriction
In order to construct a new access track to the farmland off South Newsham Road, there will be traffic management in place in the form of...
Jun 8, 2023


Bebside Level Crossing Closure
To allow for an upgrade to the level crossing at Bebside, the A193 will be closed to all traffic (including pedestrians) from 8pm on...
May 17, 2023


Newsham Level Crossing Closure
To allow for engineering work to be carried out on the rail line, the level crossing at Newsham will be closed to traffic from 9pm on...
May 11, 2023


A Bird's Eye View
There's lots of construction work happening on the Northumberland Line and you can catch up on the latest bird's eye views from Ashington...
May 5, 2023


Bedlington Level Crossing Closures
To allow for engineering work to be carried out on the rail line, the level crossing at Bedlington will be closed to traffic (including...
May 5, 2023


New Hartley Level Crossing Closures
To allow for engineering work to be carried out on the railway line, the level crossing at New Hartley will be closed to traffic...
May 3, 2023


Seghill Level Crossing Closures
To allow for engineering work to be carried out on the rail line, the level crossing at Seghill will be closed to traffic (including...
Apr 5, 2023


Temporary closure of footpath Forest Hall 005 (Palmersville)
The public right of way on this footpath is being diverted whilst work is on-going to replace the current pedestrian crossing at...
Mar 20, 2023


Palmersville Dairy works - construction of temporary access road
Works to construct a new underpass at Palmersville Dairy level crossing will soon commence. Initially a new temporary access road off...
Jan 13, 2023


Road closure - Kenilworth Road Ashington
A section of Kenilworth Road in Ashington will be closed to traffic from 8am on Monday 9 January until 6pm on Friday 27 January. The...
Dec 23, 2022


Ashington station platform takes shape
Ashington station platform under construction
Dec 1, 2022


Bridge works at New Hartley/South Newsham - November 2022
Between September and November this year contractors have been working to repair and upgrade a bridge on the existing railway line in...
Nov 15, 2022


Ashington works
Details of the latest works in Ashington are summarised below. To maintain safe pedestrian access to Wansbeck Square from Kenilworth Road...
Oct 18, 2022


Bedlington works
The former Boots building in Bedlington has been demolished to allow for the new station works. Over the course of two weekends,...
Oct 17, 2022


Revised Timetable from Sunday 18th May
A revised train timetable will start from Sunday 18th May and run until Saturday 13th December 2025. There are no major changes to the...
4 days ago


Roadworks at Newsham to complete early
We posted back on the 14th April 2025 about roadworks on the west side of the station at Newsham. The works were due to be completed on...
Apr 30


April Newsletter
Now that we've got 3 stations up and running on the Northumberland Line, we've changed the frequency of our newsletter. Here's the latest...
Apr 30
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