Great Public Meeting last night with Mike Paterson of Northern Railway. An interesting presentation from Mike, particularly the cost and revenue breakdown of how much it costs, and how much profit is made, per train. Honest response to questions and answers too, with debate covering the urgent need to re-instate through off-peak service to MetroCentre, the need for an earlier morning train from Morpeth – predominantly for Cramlington passengers, a plea to extend the opening hours of Morpeth Ticket office now, rather than waiting for building redevelopment to be complete, an agreement to investigate the cleaning frequency of Morpeth station subway, the need to re-examine of the commercial case for parking charges at Cramlington and Morpeth, and likelihood of seeing a regular Northern service between Morpeth and Berwick.
