SENRUG – The South East Northumberland Rail User Group – is a voluntary organisation that promotes rail travel and campaigns for better rail services in, within, to, from and through South East and East Northumberland, representing the interests of both existing and potential rail travellers in the area.
By ‘potential’, SENRUG means those who would use rail services if only the trains went where they want to go, at the time they want to go, at a price they can afford, and in a clean, safe, secure, accessible and easy to understand manner.
Please look through our website to find out more about our current campaigns and how we pursue them. Use the Contact button below to let us know if you agree or advise us of ideas of your own.
The more people we speak for, the louder our voice is heard. If you support our objectives, we invite you to add your voice to ours and join SENRUG, to help us achieve our campaigns and develop new ones.
SENRUG has been campaigning for the re-opening of the Ashington Blyth & Tyne Line, now known as The Northumberland Line, linking Newcastle to Ashington, since March 2005. Go to our Ashington Blyth and Tyne Campaign Page to find out details of what we propose, and the scheme now being delivered by Northumberland County Council, or visit our AB&T Campaign History Page which gives key milestones throughout the campaign’s 17 year history. But SENRUG is not a single issue campaign group, and you can check out our other campaigns and the progress we are making on our Campaigns Index page here.
LATEST NEWS
Northumberland Line Opening Date Announced: 15th December 2024: Passenger services will finally return to the Northumberland Line on 15th December 2025. Initially, trains will only call at Ashington, Seaton Delaval and Newcastle (and approximately alternate weekday trains also calling at Manors). Bedlington, Bebside, Newsham and the Metro interchange station at Northumberland Park are all still under construction and will be opened at later stages. The very first train from Newcastle to Ashington will depart at 07:57, and the first train from Ashington to Newcastle will depart at 08:36. Thereafter, on weekdays, the first train from Ashington will depart at 06:00, arriving at Newcastle at 06:36. The line will open 19 years after the SENRUG campaign first began in March 2005. For the full timeline from the launch of the campaign in March 2005 to the present day see here.
