Northumberland Line
The Northumberland Line is an exciting and ambitious project. Today it has a handful of freight trains per week, but detailed plans are being put in place to soon use it to run passenger services and open new stations.
Stuart McNaughton, Strategic Transport Manager, Northumberland County Council and Andy Coates, Regional Director, Rail Planning, AECOM
Connectivity within and beyond South East Northumberland
The case for the Northumberland Line project
How the vision will be delivered
The rules to which the project has to conform
The business case
The current state of the project
Access: Video - Presentation - Transcript - Questions
Julian Sindall, Director, Cadenza Transport Consulting and Stuart McNaughton
Maximising value to the community
How the project has already started to stimulate other investment in the area
Upgrading of shopping precincts
New business that are arriving
Arts, academic and community developments
Access: Video - Presentation - Transcript - Questions
Kieran Dunkin, Senior Programme Manager, Network Rail and Paul McSharry, Managing Director, Principal Signalling Engineer, Kilborn Consulting
Network Rail’s role in this third-party project
The Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline (Rnep)
Working with Network Rail Asset Protection and Optimisation teams (ASPRO)
Compliances and techical reviews
Uniting sponsors' aspirations and rail asset owners requirements
The new flexibility resulting from moving to Rnep from CP6 & GRIP, etc
Access: Video - Presentation - Transcript - Questions
Camilla Ween, Head of Communications, ConnectedCites
Putting rail at the heart of Tyne & Wear's development
The potential ConnectedCities of Tyne & Wear
Sustainably expanding existing towns
Integrating new settlements
Access: Video - Presentation - Transcript - Questions