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The penultimate station to be completed on the Northumberland Line has been officially opened. The first train rolled into the new station at Northumberland Park near Backworth in North Tyneside shortly after 8am on Sunday, February 22nd, opening up a new era of transport connectivity for the region. From Northumberland Park, customers will be able to travel to Newcastle in around 12 minutes or Ashington in 23 minutes. The station is also an interchange with the Tyne and We

Want to know more about Northumberland Park station - read our FAQ's ahead of the Northumberland Line's latest station and Britain's 2,600th station opening........ 1. Are the works at Northumberland Park now complete? All the works within the Northumberland Park station site itself are now complete ahead of the station opening to passengers on Sunday 22 February 2026. We still have some ongoing remediation works to complete outside of the station and in Fenwick Close that a

As we get closer to Bedlington station opening on Sunday 29th March 2026, we're taking a look back at the old station and sharing some images from the new look station. The original station opened on the 3rd August 1850 and only had a fairly limited service to Newcastle, with a timetable from 1863 showing a timetable of 4 trains per day in each direction and a journey time of around 90 minutes. When the station re-opens, trains will run every 30 minutes during the day on Mon