{"id":667645,"date":"2026-01-01T21:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/667645\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T21:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:42:18","slug":"northumberland-line-rail-minister-backs-call-for-more-carriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/667645\/","title":{"rendered":"Northumberland Line: Rail minister backs call for more carriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesman for the company said it was &#8220;closely monitoring demand&#8221; and bringing in additional carriages when possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he added it was &#8220;challenging as we have a limited number of carriages in our fleet, which are needed to run more than 2,650 services a day across the North of England&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Limited capacity at Newcastle station can also prevent us from running longer services at certain times of the day,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are exploring all available options and working with industry partners to address these issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The number of journeys on the line has been about double the number expected despite two stations \u2013 Bedlington and Northumberland Park \u2013 still not having opened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its success has prompted discussions on an extension, with Newbiggin identified as a key destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesman for the company said it was &#8220;closely monitoring demand&#8221; and bringing in additional carriages when possible.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-667645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115822024643668402","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}