The petition for a new rail service between Newcastle Upon Tyne, and Edinburgh, via Blyth Bebside, and Northumberland Park continues to grow, and now stands at 944 signatures as of this morning (20.9.25), leaving only 56 signatures to go until the thousand mark is reached!
I would like to give big thank you to all who have signed it so far, and especially to all those who have made a donation via change.org to help promote the petition, with 27 promoters giving a total of £112 so far. Thanks to all of you!
Please keep sharing the petition wide and far, which will keep the proposal in the limelight and hopefully see it at least costed out as a proposal to increase seating capacity on the highly successful Northumberland Line (now at over half a million passengers), as well as providing new, direct connections that have never before been seen by stations in this area of Northumberland.
This new link, using an existing line, could be a massive boost to both residents, as well as local, national, and international businesses located next to Blyth Bebside and Northumberland Park stations (i.e. Dräger Safety in Bebside, and businesses such as Sage, and Newcastle Building Society in the Cobalt Business Park in North Tyneside).
More trains running via SE Northumberland would increase the overall number of seats available, as these would be timetabled alongside the existing half-hourly Ashington – Newcastle services, not in place of them; with the added advantage that a direct route north would also potentially release seats too.
This would work by avoiding passengers needing to travel into Newcastle to catch northbound trains, instead passengers could go directly from Northumberland Park/Blyth Bebside into North Northumberland & Scotland, this easing the crowding on Northern Class 158’s by using bi-mode units such as the TPE or LNER 80x fleet, or diesel CrossCountry ‘Voyagers’ to give a service around the ‘Loop’ via Blyth Bebside.
The Northumberland Coast Loop 