A railtour running via the proposed southbound Northumberland Coast Loop route (from Berwick Upon Tweed , through Pegswood and Bedlington, then to Newcastle Central) has just had timings released on Realtime Trains, please click the link below for further information:
Link to 1Z84 Dunbarton to Newcastle, 25.8.25 on Realtime Trains
This is a railtour operating southbound, so in the opposite direction to ‘The Seven Counties Rambler‘ back in March, with the added bonus of running in broad daylight rather than darkness too.
This is part of a three day railtour operated by UK Railtours, as covered in a previous blog post.
Timings as of Wednesday 20th August
The expected departure from Dunbarton is at 09:01, to begin the journey south.
The train is due to pass Alnmouth at around 11:47, the railtour will then leave the East Coast Main Line at Morpeth North Junction at approx 12:02, pass Bedlington at around 12:14, pass Newsham at around 12:20, then arrive in Newcastle Central at approximately 13:01. Please note these timings can be subject to change, the information shared here is only for those interested in potentially taking photos/video of the train as it passes.
If you do happen to capture it, I’d be delighted to share photo’s/links to videos (i.e. YouTube) on this blog, so please get in contact via our social media pages to arrange if you’d like to share your content.
For this campaign, a particularly interesting site for photographs/video/drone footage to be captured, if possible, would be the train traversing the Morpeth North Curve, which is the line passing from Temples Bridge (w3w: ///insects.hamsters.issuer), under the Coopies Lane bridge at (w3w: ///encloses.stowing.loosens), then under the A196 at (w3w: ///driftwood.clerk.pupils), to Hepscott Junction (w3w: ///worms.blending.cans). Again please share a link to your content if you manage to capture this! Similarly, along the route between Morpeth North Curve at Bedlington would also be much appreciated!
Petition
Whilst railtours over the route are very much a welcome sight, this campaign intends to see a regular service over the route these railtours are taking between Newcastle and Edinburgh via Bedlington; if you can, please support the petition by signing it on Change.org at: https://www.change.org/p/start-a-newcastle-edinburgh-rail-service-via-blyth-bebside-and-northumberland-park
Thanks, RH.
The Northumberland Coast Loop 