Today I attended TPE’s Stakeholder Forum in Leeds, which meant an early start and a long day. You might be asking why, since TPE services do not currently serve our region. But of course we interconnect with them at Newcastle, and more importantly have been campaigning vigorously for their services to be extended to Cramlington and Morpeth. This will now be a decision for the new franchise holder who takes over in 2016. For legal reasons, the Forum could not discuss the new franchise, but it was good to catch up with all the things the current franchisee is doing across their network.
