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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

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

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

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

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

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

Council set to consider rail-line funding increase

Northumberland County Council is set to consider extra funding to ensure the Northumberland Line rail project can be completed in full as...

Aug 26, 2025

Major milestone marked as half a million journeys are made on the Northumberland Line

500,000 passengers have now travelled on the Northumberland Line since it opened, train operator Northern has announced. The operator has...

Aug 5, 2025

Cycling adventures on the Northumberland Line

Travelling on the Northumberland Line has proved to be very popular, especially for leisure journeys, but, did you know that you can take...

Jul 6, 2025

Revised Pop Fares from 1st July 2025

From Tuesday 1st July 2025, there have been some changes to Pop fares, with the changes being approved by the North East Combined...

Jul 1, 2025

Northern's Customer and Community Improvement Fund (CCIF) is open

This year, the fund has been doubled to £200,000, made up of individual grants with values of up to £2,500, £10,000 or £20,000. The CCIF...

Jul 1, 2025

June Newsletter

Here's the latest Northumberland Line newsletter, with the latest information on the three remaining stations as well as a host of other...

Jun 30, 2025

Introducing "The Northumbrian"

New train artwork celebrating the reopening of the Northumberland Line and the history of the local area has been unveiled by Northern....

Jun 26, 2025

Better Transport Week - Local Transport Worth Celebrating

Better Transport Week is a celebration of the transport that connects communities and brings people together. From shopping delivered by...

Jun 17, 2025

Weekend Engineering Works Reminder - 21st & 22nd, 28th & 29th June

We appreciate that closing part of the line isn’t ideal, but by having the line closed through Bedlington does allow our construction...

Jun 16, 2025

Connecting Communities comes to Seaton Delaval

Come and visit Connecting Communities, the Northumberland Line Photographic Journey in Astley Park Pavilion in Seaton Delaval between the...

Jun 12, 2025

Tell us your Northumberland Line story

We know that the Northumberland Line has made journeys so much easier for many residents in South East Northumberland, be that making it...

Jun 3, 2025

Bedlington Station Construction Update

Work is progressing on the station construction at Bedlington and there will be 3 weekend closures in June so that more work close to the...

May 29, 2025

Celebrating Community Rail Week

This week is Community Rail Week and we joined the launch event in Haltwhistle earlier in the week in partnership with the Community Rail...

May 21, 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

6 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

Mar 5

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