Newsham returns to the railway network

The station is the first of two serving the Blyth area to open on the Northumberland Line.

By Graeme Pickering

NEWSHAM station, the first of two serving Blyth to open as part of the £298.5 million Northumberland Line project, which has restored services between Newcastle and Ashington after a gap of 60 years, welcomed its first passengers on March 17. The 06.12 departure for Newcastle was the first train to call at what is the largest of the six new stations on the route and the third to open, Ashington and Seaton Delaval having been brought into use on December 15 last year. Close to the A1061 (for which a new bridge was built over the site, replacing the previous level crossing to its north), the two-platform station, which has a lift-accessible footbridge, ticket machines and car park, is around half-a-mile south of the previous one. Situated on the junction…

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