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The latter, given that’s what actually matters.

Not really. It’s just every other service being cancelled, given the normal frequency is every 12 minutes. They ran to the same frequency and timetable throughout the first lockdown.

The Newcastle - Berlin route hasn’t operated since April 2019, so that’s moot in any case!

Let’s be honest, even from Monday, many routes in the north of England are barely operating at 50%. Avanti are still only operating hourly north of Preston. TPE are only operating every 2 hours (plus the odd Liverpool) on the Airport - Scotland route. LNER are still operating roughly 3 trains...

It's actually this coming December that will see a shakeup, with longer distance services being chopped into constituent parts to deal with reliability issues.

The basic Morecambe to Lancaster timetable has barely changed since those enforced by VHF. Even before that, it’s been a similar muddled mess of a timetable since I was a kid, when BR was very much still a thing.

Newcastle to Liverpool is being stepped up to hourly from Monday 18th.

I don’t see why not. After all, heavy and light rail share the line to Sunderland.

The Leamside line is still targeted by NEXUS for an extension of the Metro, effectively creating a long loop by connecting Pelaw with South Hylton. If the line is seen as a good option for diverting freight from the ECML, then that would help with this aspiration.

That doesn’t exist. Morpeth trains go all the way to Carlisle, these days.

Not quite. Different seats. Same interior (I think) as the new Cambridge Busway buses.

The interior on the new Newcastle based E400MMCs is grey and blue, so it would be very odd if they were painted red, externally. The branding on them (albeit temporary) is also a dark blue.

That makes no sense!

64% of people polled by yougov.

The Tees Valley (and one assumes the Esk will also benefit) network is earmarked for Hydrogen trains by 2022, according to the latest Transport for the North documents.

That's the same every year. There's a leaf fall timetable after that date.

I believe they have received government funding via successful local government grant applications. Certainly in Newcastle in any case.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/north-east-rallies-behind-hitachis-16024632 Hitachi has submitted its tender for the metro replacement. Interesting that the bid is for 54 trains, which is more than initially planned?

Newcastle to Hexham is now 3tph (2tph to Carlisle). Weirdly, the class 1 Carlisle services are the slows, with the class 2s being the expresses! The 18:10 now terminates at Prudhoe, so there's been a peak service deduction beyond there. The general pattern through the day is Middlesbrough...

Morecambe is used as a southern base from coach tours to the Lake District and it’s just not true to say there are no tourists. Much of the town is run down but that’s something that afflicts many places and can take a decade or two to reverse.