Our booking engine at tickets.railforums.co.uk (powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!
18:25 after sitting in the loop for about 40 minutes, it departed Newcastle early at 17:23. Was probably looped at Ferryhill too, as it ran between a GNER and a Virgin service.