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Fairly certain the current owners of the former hospital would not be enthusiastic. There's an existing path which people use, south of the railway which doesn't go through those grounds but I don't believe it's a public footpath

Was asked along the lines of "how come we can't get on this one" during disruption, when a "fast" was stopped at the platform waiting for the block to clear. This was at an unstaffed station but I was wearing a suit, so for someone desperate to have somebody to complain at I must have been the...

Former Wylam-Lemington waggonway (world's first adhesion railway) between Wylam and Newburn

Lengthening work started this week : https://www.networkrail.co.uk/news/upgrade-at-metrocentre-station-will-mean-more-seats-for-passengers But MetroCentre is shown in the sectional appendix as having 100m operational length on both platforms, and 4-car 156s stop there already. What will be...

Oddly specific: "This service was cancelled between Newcastle and Middlesbrough due to a passenger being taken ill (VD)"

Can confirm it was a most unpleasant surprise. The change crew at Newcastle seemed a little shocked also - "Where have you got that thing from?"

BeeBox setups (https://www.beeboxsystems.co.uk/) have an option to show live departures. The Fox and Hounds near Wylam station has this.

There's an access application in for Middlesbrough-Newcastle via the ECML and Stillington from December, so it looks that way. Base pattern I guess would be 1tph Carlisle-Newcastle-Middlesbrough (Fast) 1tph Carlisle-Newcastle-Morpeth (Fast Hexham-Newcastle) 1tph...

849 out on the Tyne Valley yesterday and today. WiFi, USB, reservation indicators. Interior looks very smart, legroom is quite generous, cushioning rather less so.

A handy rule of thumb is always to accept offers of G&T :D

Coincidentally today I was walking near the line looking for good viewing points, and in one place there is a clear path leading right up to the trackside. In the absence of a fence is there a guideline as to how close one may safely approach? I could imagine the distance of the yellow line on a...

When we walked along a particular footpath than ran in sight of the line, my parents would get us to wave to the passing trains, and we'd always get a cheery "toot" back. It was many years later that I found out what "W" signs meant.

It only goes as far as Hexham. The return working gets back to Newcastle at 00.04 The last Tyne Valley service out of Newcastle on a Saturday (21.52) terminates at Prudhoe, at which point it turns back as an ECS to Metrocentre in order to form the 22.33 to Newcastle. I wonder why this is not...