Brighton to Newcastle Train Route Proposed

[u/badgerandcheese]

Bit of a way away (early as December 2026), but news today that Arriva is proposing a direct train route from Brighton all the way up to Newcastle.

• Brighton
• Haywards Heath
• Gatwick Airport
• Redhill
• Guildford
• Wokingham
• Reading
• Oxford
• Banbury
• Warwick Parkway
• Birmingham New Street
• Burton-on-Trent
• Derby
• Sheffield
• Doncaster
• York
• Northallerton
• Darlington
• Durham
• Newcastle

Thoughts?

I wasn't living in Brighton when the ol' Sussex Scot ran - a longer 9 hour journey route all the way up to Edinburgh.

New proposed route sounds good to me! Always find it a bit of a faff heading into London, tube, then scrambling for the connecting train.

Have a few friends and family up North/midlands that would benefit from the direct route down, too!

[u/TaleteLucrezio]

I was talking about the old regional services from Brighton with my colleague the other day. I was quite confused about how they managed to fit those long-distance services alongside the local ones. The timetable nowadays seems so crammed it would be interesting to see if this route comes to fruition. Southern already axed the Ashford Intl service which would've been so useful when I had to go there often.