(25 Apr 2014, 6:14 pm)Andreos Constantopolous wrote Does anyone know the diagrams for Northern or know where to find them?

Looking at possibly doing some Northern bashing on the next bank holiday - but don't want to spend the day sitting on Pacers.

(26 Apr 2014, 7:07 am)danpick wrote the morpeth & dunston stoppers interwork with each others so the 12:01 from metrocentre to morperth does the 13:31 metrocentre to newcastle and on them run its a pacer and sprinter

(25 Apr 2014, 6:14 pm)Andreos Constantopolous wrote Does anyone know the diagrams for Northern or know where to find them?

Looking at possibly doing some Northern bashing on the next bank holiday - but don't want to spend the day sitting on Pacers.

(01 May 2014, 9:04 am)eezypeazy wrote As far as I can tell, there's little rhyme or reason as to whether you get a 156 or a 142. The only runs that are (almost) guaranteed to be 156s are the Scotrail trains to/from Glasgow.

I've recently observed a 142 being allocated to the once-a-day Carlisle - Middlesbrough run!

(01 May 2014, 11:39 am)eezypeazy wrote If Andreos is contemplating a Sunday outing, then I notice there's a Carlisle to NOTTINGHAM through Northern service leaves Carlisle at 1520 via S&C, Leeds and Sheffield. Is that the longest possible Northern bash without a change?

(07 May 2014, 7:37 pm)tyresmoke wrote Probably worth mentioning that the diagrams I'd worked out for Dec 2013-May 2014 have changed significantly in May 2014 for the new timetable. A number of services appear to have changed, with most services down the coast now extending to Nunthorpe to co-incide with the opening of James Cook station, rather than two out of 3 as the "current" timetable. A number appear to have been split in Newcastle too, with odd ones not continuing to Hexham any more, not sure why?!

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(15 May 2014, 4:27 pm)Andreos Constantopolous wrote Could be fun!

(15 May 2014, 7:20 pm)aureolin wrote I sense social media suicide is on the horizon.

(22 Jun 2014, 11:14 am)Dan wrote Hope nobody was planning on going to Whitby by Northern Rail today... Went out for a photo of it passing SoL Metro earlier but I didn't manage because it was 50 minutes late.

(22 Jun 2014, 11:21 am)tyresmoke wrote Looks like it lost 53 mins between Newcastle and Pelaw Junction... Terminated at Middlesbrough 49 mins late, unit fault by the looks of it.

(22 Jun 2014, 11:31 am)Andreos Constantopolous wrote 2W10 1101 ex Hartlepool also terminated short.

(02 Jul 2014, 1:19 pm)eezypeazy wrote That train hasn't stopped at Stocksfield for years... it certainly wasn't in the May 2012 timetable, or any since - don't know about before that...

EDIT: Just gone back through some old timetables since December 2004. The 1730/1740 ish departure from Stocksfield towards Newcastle WAS IN the timetables up to that issued in September 2010; it WAS NOT IN the timetable issued 3 October 2011. So it got taken out at either December 2010 or May 2011 (sorry, can't put my hand on them right now)... wasn't there a big recast of the National Rail Timetable about then, resulting in a more 'clock face' timetable up the Tyne Valley and elsewhere? Could that be the explanation?

(26 Jul 2014, 11:25 am)citaro5284 wrote Some Stations maybe under threat under new franchise??

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/NEWS/11368327.Services_at_region__39_s__quot_little_used_quot__railway_stations_under_threat/?ref=rss

(26 Jul 2014, 11:28 am)BJ10VUS wrote To be fair, I'm not surprised about Teesside Airport, with 8 passengers a year it's hardly worth saving!

(26 Jul 2014, 11:47 am)Andreos Constantopolous wrote How many trains stop there though?
Not many.

(26 Jul 2014, 12:13 pm)BJ10VUS wrote Yeah, but the Arriva Sky Express from Darlington failed, and so did the Arriva 12. I doubt the train will be that much help!