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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

‘Proper exciting’: passenger trains to return to Northumberland Line after 60 years

Campaigner Dennis Fancett, chair of the South East Northumberland Rail User Group
Campaigner Dennis Fancett, chair of the South East Northumberland Rail User Group. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer

“It has been painful and torturous,” said Dennis Fancett, reflecting on a 19-year battle to bring back trains to overlooked communities in south-east Northumberland.

“It is a working freight line. It should have been the easiest rail reopening in the country and it hasn’t been. It has been painful and stop-start for years.”

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