(04 Sep 2023, 11:13 pm)solsburian wrote With all of the house building in Killingworth, there is probably a good argument that could be made for a station to be re-instated there (and possibly Dudley too). Looking at the alignments, it odes seem like there was room for additional 3rd and 4th tracks on the ECML in the area, which might work as passing loops now, plus replacing the increasing elderly Sprinters with their pedestrian acceleration with Electric multiple units would help too.

Aye totally agreed if you could get it to work, could be scope for round Wiltshire Drive aswell then we might not hear about buses along these, tounge in cheek, but there's probably demand for a train station around there. 

It won't happen tho as rail around here is alien.