(12 Dec 2013, 8:21 pm)Adam wrote Please excuse my ignorance here, but I thought GNER folded....
Good news for passengers though
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-25340545
Unfortunately it won't come about - the company behind this has had big ideas in the past with its old GNER proposals along with its GNWR ones which failed to make it passed the ORR.