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

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Proper exciting passenger trains to return to northumberland line after 60 years - What They Never Told You

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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