Excellent and well attended meeting at Berwick Town Hall tonight, a follow-on to the one a year ago organised by Berwick County Councillor Georgina Hill. The subject was how to improve rail services to Berwick. SENRUG believes the best way to do this is for the local Northern service from Newcastle to Morpeth to be extended to Berwick, calling at all stations with Beal and Belford eventually re-opened. Our sister group RAGES (Rail Action East of Scotland) similarly campaign for a local service from Berwick to Newcastle. In addition to myself, there were also speakers from Northumberland and Scottish Borders Councils, Northern and RAGES, with Cllr Hill opening the meeting and final comments from The Mayor. My journey from Morpeth to Berwick took 1 hour 35 minutes including a chilly hour’s wait at Alnmouth as no direct services are available, given me time to ponder the fact that Morpeth has 2 services to Alnmouth within 9 minutes (16:48 and 16:57), but a 9 hour gap between 11:51 and 20:53 for a direct service to Berwick.
