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Information Event Ahead Of Blyth Bebside Station Opening

Our next station Northumberland Line station to open will be Blyth Bebside on Sunday 19th October 2025. Ahead of the reintroduction of...

Oct 6, 2025

Connecting Communities Photo Exhibition comes to Bedlington

The Connecting Communities photo exhibition from Morgan Sindall Infrastructure comes to East Bedlington Community Centre and you can...

Oct 5, 2025

Toucan Crossing Works - Chase Farm Drive, Blyth

From Monday 6 October 2025 works will commence to install the permanent signal-controlled crossing for pedestrians and cyclists (known as...

Oct 4, 2025

Voices of the Northumberland Line - Calvin's Story

Enjoy the 5th of our Northumberland Line stories and this time we hear from Calvin. This is the last in our current series of stories,...

Oct 3, 2025

Then & Now - Blyth Bebside

As we get closer to Blyth Bebside station opening on Sunday 19th October 2025, we're taking a look back at the old station and sharing...

Oct 2, 2025

Voices of the Northumberland Line - Jean's story

Here's our 4th installment of Voices of the Northumberland Line and we hand over to Jean to share her story.......

Sep 26, 2025

Works Continuing on Front Street, Bebside

Further to our recent news posts, we are continuing with the works to upgrade Front Street and Errington Street as our progress was...

Sep 24, 2025

Station Construction Progress Meeting at Northumberland Park (7th October 2025)

We will be hosting an information session that will provide an update on progress so far and upcoming works relating to construction of...

Sep 24, 2025

West Car Park at Newsham - Opens Monday 29th September

From Monday 29 th September 2025, Newsham Station’s west car park will open to the public. This will release additional car parking...

Sep 22, 2025

Voices of the Northumberland Line - Reece's Story

We're sharing the 3rd of our Voices of the Northumberland Line series and this time, we're hearing Reece's story on how the...

Sep 19, 2025

Heaton TrainCare Centre Open Event

The doors to Northern's Heaton TrainCare Centre are being opened to the public for a special event to celebrate it's 150th anniversary on...

Sep 16, 2025

Overnight Works on Bebside Front Street Extended

Unfortunately due to the adverse weather conditions over the weekend, the team has been unable to complete the required resurfacing work...

Sep 16, 2025

Overnight Road Closures for Newsham Station Works

Full overnight road closures will be in place across the west and east side of Newsham Station to facilitate the final works required to...

Sep 16, 2025

Voices of the Northumberland Line - Melanie's Story

We're sharing the second of our series of Northumberland Line stories - real life people sharing how the Northumberland Line has changed...

Sep 15, 2025

Blyth Bebside Opening Date Confirmed

The fourth station to be completed on the Northumberland Line will open on Sunday, October 19th 2025. Since the opening of the line in...

Sep 11, 2025

Voices of the Northumberland Line - James' Story

The Northumberland Line has changed the way people travel in South East Northumberland and we asked local people to share their stories...

Sep 9, 2025

Further Works on Front Street, Bebside

We are sharing that there will be additional highways and footway work on Front Street, which is now anticipated to finish in late...

Sep 8, 2025

Overnight Closure on A189 Spine Road - Thursday 4th Sept 2025

There will be another overnight road closure on the A189 Spine Road between the Bebside and Three Horse Shoes roundabouts starting from...

Aug 31, 2025

August 2025 Newsletter

There's still a lot of work happening on the Northumberland Line as we get closer to welcoming our final 3 stations, plus we've got 3...

Aug 29, 2025

Accessibility Drop In Event at Newsham - 12th Sept 2025

We held a very successful accessibility drop in event in Ashington earlier in the year and we're inviting interested groups and...

Aug 27, 2025

Information Event for Bedlington

Our next station (& last for now) on the Northumberland Line to open will be Bedlington on Sunday 29th March 2026. Ahead of the reintroduction of the passenger service at this station, you're invited you to join us on Monday 23rd March 2026 at East Bedlington Community Centre, 16-17 Station Road, Bedlington from 5.30pm to 7.30pm for an information event. The event will be a drop in, so call in any time between 5.30pm and 7.30pm to ask questions about the station and the new r

4 days ago

New Bus Service to Blyth Bebside

From Monday 23rd March, Arriva will provide a new peak time bus link to serve the Northumberland Line station at Blyth Bebside. The new route 3 will run from Blyth Bus Station to Blyth Bebside station via Newsham Road, Isabella, Cowpen Shops, Briardale Road, Blyth Community College, Bebside Middle School and Bebside Interchange. Buses will run on weekdays with 3 journeys in the morning peak to connect with trains to Newcastle and 3 journeys in the afternoon peak that connect

6 days ago

February Newsletter

We've had another very busy few weeks on the Northumberland Line with the announcements on the station opening dates at Northumberland Park & Bedlington, celebrating 1 million passenger journeys and the opening of Northumberland Park this week. Want to catch up on the latest news - here's our February newsletter.

Feb 25