(17 Jan 2025, 1:34 am)logidoodah wrote I've noticed that the 4-car trains on the Durham Coast Line is only the runs terminating at Whitby. Any that terminate at Battersby/Nunthorpe/Middlesborough/Thornaby are always 2 cars. I get this often and it took me a while to figure out without RTT. 

However, I believe this service should be every 30 mins (apart from the Limited stop Thornaby - Newcastle ones at peaks) as it honestly gets soo rammed if I was trying to get off at Heworth (in either direction) I would give up as people are already squeezing by the doors to get off in Newcastle in 7 mins time. 

Would be great if they went from Ashington - Middlesborough (and extending to Nunthorpe or Saltburn each every hour). This would greatly improve the cross-tyne connections albeit Northumberland Park should be better served by buses for this to be successful

So to clarify it would be 
Ashington - Middlesborough [including Saltburn extension] (every 60 mins)
Ashington - Hexham [giving links to the Metrocentre] (every 60 mins)
Carlisle - Nunthorpe [including Whitby extension 2 twice a day] (every 60 mins)

*This enables Newcastle - Hexham | Newcastle - Ashington | Newcastle - Middlesborough to all be half hourly

Well that’s definitely not going to happen because from December this year, the only through Northern service in any direction at Newcastle will be the bi-hourly Middlesbrough to Newcastle fast, which will extend to and from Carlisle. Everything else will terminate at Newcastle. This means that the larger stations on the coast line will have a train that goes in Metrocentre direction once every two hours. The rest won’t have any at all.