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Passenger Services Confirmed for Summer 2024
The Northumberland Line – bringing passenger services back between the South East of the county and central Newcastle – will be open from...
Jan 17, 2024


Project Milestone at Northumberland Park
We are delighted to share that we have safely and successfully installed a 160 tonne Crawler Crane on site at Northumberland Park. Space...
Jan 12, 2024


Signal Boxes to be removed
We're sharing some sad news about plans to remove Marcheys House and North Seaton signal boxes to enable the Northumberland Line, which...
Jan 12, 2024


Upcoming Work in Bedlington
We'll be seeing some further work on the level crossing at Bedlington South for further testing of the new equipment as well as work on...
Jan 9, 2024


Drop in Event at Seaton Delaval
We are holding a public information event for local residents to find out more about overnight work and the construction programme for...
Jan 8, 2024


New Level Crossing at Bedlington South
Work has been ongoing over the past week or so to install a new level crossing at Bedlington South. This is the first of the new look...
Jan 5, 2024


Northumberland Park - Crane Delivery Reminder
Don't forget that car parking on Algernon Drive at Northumberland Park will be restricted from Monday 8th January until Wednesday 10th...
Jan 5, 2024


Northumberland Park - Crane Delivery
The next stage of works for construction of the station at Northumberland Park require a crane to be delivered, built and moved into...
Dec 20, 2023


Great Work in November
We've had a lot of construction activity taking place during November, including new bridges at Newsham, but as well as those projects,...
Dec 19, 2023


Christmas Newsletter
We've got a bumper newsletter for you as this one takes in November and the early part of December. There's a lot of work taking place...
Dec 18, 2023


Track Works at Bebside
PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE WORKS HAVE NOW BEEN CANCELLED We will be working along a 500m length of the railway track in Blyth Bebside 24...
Dec 18, 2023


Bedlington South Level Crossing Closure - 29th Dec to 8th Jan
The level crossing at Bedlington South (over the line at Station Road) will be closed to road traffic from 10pm on Friday 29th December...
Dec 13, 2023


Women into Construction Opportunity
If you're looking for a new opportunity in the New Year, then why not consider applying to be part of Morgan Sindall's Women into...
Dec 11, 2023


Clearing The Way
Providing benefits for the community is one of the main aims of the Northumberland Line, and one of the most recent bits of work has seen...
Dec 5, 2023


Northumberland Park - Update & Presentation Event
Our next Presentation event for residents at Northumberland Park will take at Backworth Hall, Station Road, NE27 0AH on the evening of...
Nov 30, 2023


Thank You Newsham
We'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who attended our drop in event at Blyth Town Football Club last night to talk about the...
Nov 30, 2023


New Stations - A View From Above
As work progresses on all 6 of our new stations for the Northumberland Line, we thought we'd share some aerial pictures from each of the...
Nov 23, 2023


Newsham Bridge Taking Shape
Over the weekend of the 18th & 19th of November, there was some huge progress in the Northumberland Line project as the installation of...
Nov 20, 2023


Drop In Event at Newsham
If you've got any questions about the construction work on the new station and road bridge at Newsham for the Northumberland Line, or the...
Nov 17, 2023


Great Work in October
October has been a really busy month for construction along the Northumberland Line and there's also been some a lot happening in our...
Nov 17, 2023


Milestone reached as 250,000th passenger journey made on Northumberland Line
Passengers who have made more than 250,000 journeys on Northumberland Line services are being reminded they can beat the queues for...
2 days ago


Platform Progress at Bedlington
Over the Easter weekend, trains were replaced by buses on the Northumberland Line to allow for platform construction at Bedlington to...
3 days ago


Ashington Eco Fair - Friday 25th March 2025
We'll be attending the Eco Fair in Ashington at Hirst Welfare Centre on Friday 25th April between 10am and 3pm. If you've got any...
6 days ago
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