Excellent meeting with guest speaker Andy Sparkes, Commercial Director for Virgin Trains East Coast. Good range of questions including the obvious ones of needing some VTEC off peak trains to stop at Morpeth, and how to improve station facilities for inter-city passengers at stations like Morpeth managed by another operator. We had the genuine conviction that Andy was listening to what we had to say and will take some of the points away for consideration. As for the AGM, pleased to see so many members staying on for that. The committee stays the same except that we say thanks to Jon Pine who has stood down, and welcome Gordon Summers from Cramlington, who joins us.
