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Tyne Commission Quay

Ayle Colliery, near Alston is still active. Had 2 bags of Alston Anthracite delivered from there last week. https://www.facebook.com/TheLastPit

I live in Alston and have never heard anyone mentioning Langwathby as a possibility for rail travel. I try to use the train for as much business travel as I can but have never managed to use Langwathby yet. Recent journeys have been from Penrith (Wolverhampton and Rochdale) and I regularly...

We will be running to Slaggyford from SATURDAY 9th JUNE. Trains on Saturday 9th June and Sunday 10th June will be SLAGGYFORD SPECIALS and tickets for these trains MUST be pre-booked via our website. Tickets will be available from 9a.m on WEDNESDAY 30th MAY. From Tuesday 12th June trains will run...

The hope is that the extension will be open by mid May but this depends on work being completed by volunteers. Until then, the railway will be open as normal but only as far as Lintley

As mentioned above, we have 2 or 3 mini bus services a day to Haltwhistle and Carlisle, school buses to Brampton and Carlisle twice a day and the summer only Newcastle to Keswick service. Apart from the Keswick bus, these are very lightly used and I am surprised they are still running. I very...

This was on their Twitter feed yesterday:

Just seen 91111 arriving into York at 17:30, heading north

Northbound line at Northallerton is blocked to all trains. Southbound is open but only to diesels. Passengers from all waiting EC northbound electric trains at York switched to scheduled 00:42 departure to Newcastle which is an HST and will run on the southbound line past the blockage.

On the 20:00 Kings Cross to Newcastle, stuck at York with lots of other East Coast electric trains that cant go north. Been told that the plan is to wait for a 125 expected at 00:45 which will take all waiting passengers north.