(14 Feb 2017, 9:06 pm)Michael wrote Is this the service which will stop at Sunderland too?
I don't really know the new routes, i don't really follow trains.
No, Northern Connect will be running Carlisle-Newcastle then ECML past Chester-Le-Street and Durham, Before diverging off at Ferryhill to get to Middlesbrough via the Stillington branch.
Sunderland should gain a second train an hour going by whats been laid down, The minimum has to be a additional Sunderland - Merocentre.
So Sunderland will have two services : Newcastle* - Middlesbrough/Nunthorpe and a additional Sunderland - Metrocentre service.
* Could extend from Hexham/Carlisle, Which means 2x per hour Sunderland - Metrocentre
Nothing has been confirmed on where trains will be running too
