RAILSCOT | Rail group calls for reopening of small stations [Berwick Advertiser]

Rail group calls for reopening of small stations [Berwick Advertiser]

Date: 28/01/2012

A rail interest group has made fresh calls for the reopening of small stations such as Beal and Belford as a means of increasing tourism and inward investment.

The South East Northumberland Rail User Group (SENRUG) has long campaigned for improved local services along the east coast main line.

Dennis Fancett, SENRUG chairman, writing in the organisation^s latest newsletter, said: ^Unfortunately, the local service run by Northern Rail offers just one train in the morning and evening peaks.

^Not only is this too early for tourists and holidaymakers (the train leaves Morpeth at 6.15am), but the service terminates at Chathill, thereby excluding beautiful stretches of the coast between that station and Berwick.

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A CrossCountry Voyager heading North at Beal on 7th July 2010
Location: Beal
Company: Newcastle and Berwick Railway
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A K3 about to take a train under the signalbox and over the level crossing at the south end of Belford station, Northumberland, around 1959. See image [[16267]]
Location: Belford
Company: Newcastle and Berwick Railway
//1959 John Alexander

The afternoon Chathill stopping service calls at Alnmouth on 28 May 2004.
Location: Alnmouth
Company: Newcastle and Berwick Railway
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