Start a Newcastle – Edinburgh Rail Service via Blyth Bebside and Northumberland Park
As of the 10th May 2025, the petition to ‘Start a Newcastle – Edinburgh Rail Service via Blyth Bebside and Northumberland Park‘ has gained 330 signatures.
This route would better enable ‘within Northumberland’ trips by rail, such as Berwick and Alnmouth (for Alnwick (and Amble)) to or from towns such as Blyth, which are presently poorly linked by public transport.
As can be seen from the maps below, taken from the SRPS Railtours’ ‘The Seven Counties Rambler’ souvenir brochure, a direct rail route is possible today; by simply using the currently under-utilised Morpeth North Curve and Hepscott Line, this would give a Bedlington to Pegswood connection from the Northumberland Line at Bedlington to the East Coast Main Line (ECML) at Pegswood.
This route would also serve longer distance ‘to or from Northumberland’ trips such as Blyth to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen etc, which there is a highly likely latent demand for, aa many people from towns in SE Northumberland such as Blyth take holidays or days out to cities such as Edinburgh or wider destinations in Scotland quite regularly.
If you haven’t already signed it, please do so to help support the route becoming a reality.
Start a dedicated ‘Bus Meets Train’ shuttle bus between Alnwick, Alnmouth Station & Amble
This second petition to ‘Start a dedicated ‘Bus Meets Train’ shuttle bus between Alnwick, Alnmouth Station & Amble‘, aims to provide a better bus connection between the non-rail served towns of Alnwick and Amble to the well-used railway station at Alnmouth (the 1000th most used of 2500+ in the UK). As of 10th May 2025, this petition stands at 431 signatures.
Together, these petitions have recieved 761 signatures of support, but it is still growing, please click the links above for more information and to add your support to these proposed routes both on rail and road.
Thank you especially to all who have supported these petitions so far!
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