Northern

To Newcastle this afternoon to meet Northern and hear about their new Station Adoption scheme. There are many things Northern are trying to do with Adoption that we would fully support. But our concern is the new scheme, at first sight, appears not to be able to work well with groups such as SENRUG and favours either single station “Friends of …” groups or Community Rail Partnerships. SENRUG is neither. However we are very keen to be formally recognised as the Adopters for Cramlington, Morpeth, Pegswood & Widdrington. Possibly Acklington and Chathill too if no other group wants them. We await feedback from Northern.