(26 Oct 2023, 9:22 pm)Unber43 wrote Durham Coast Line, put 3 car 170s onto it, it would solve overcrowding without increasing the pressure already on the line well between Newcastle and Sunderland not so much Sunderland to Middlesbrough where only 2 trains each way an hour run MAX

Wrong train the Turbostar's for the Durham Coast Line, they're designed for longer distance services, be a complete waste pottering along the Durham Coast at 50 mph.

If, and big if, any ever turned up here they'd be better on the Tyne Valley line imo with those trains moved to the Durham Coast Line.