Newcastle to Edinburgh via the N.C.L. Petition
Last week on Thursday 13th February, I launched a new change.org petition; ‘Start a Newcastle – Edinburgh Rail Service via Blyth Bebside and Northumberland Park‘.
To date, just one week in, this has achieved a fantastic 103 signatures, thank you to all who have already done so!
It’ll remain open until the first scheduled train runs, so if you haven’t already signed it, please do so to show your support, preferably as soon as possible ahead of the 2025 local elections in Northumberland in May: please ask your local candidate to support the Northumberland Coast Loop!
The N.C.L. proposal has gained support from NCC (positive response to our last petition from Councillor H.G.H. Sanderson, current Leader of Northumberland County Council), as well as the office of Ian Lavery, MP for Blyth and Ashington, so it is certainly on the radar for both Northumberland County Council and the local MP for the ‘loop’ section between the proposed station at Choppington, on the Hepscott Line, and Newsham Station on the Northumberland Line, hopefully the next station to open in the coming weeks.
The petition is to help maintain momentum with the proposal for a rail service via Blyth, and the greater the support the more action our County Councillors and MP’s can take to see it enacted.
The Northumberland Coast Loop 