(19 Apr 2022, 5:19 am)streetdeckfan wrote Realistically, what would be the benefit of reopening the line to Crook?

It's already faster and more convenient (unless you live opposite the train station), and cheaper to use the Arriva X1 between Bishop and Darlington, so I can't imagine the situation being any different if they extended it to Crook.

Politics to put it simply.

By doing cheap feasibility studies on fantasy lines see Consett aswell it makes it out like the two MP's which are conveniently Tory are doing stuff when reality they're doing nothing at all on stuff which both areas actually need.