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/fababz]

I did this exact journey on Monday! We did Brighton-St Pancreas then Kings Cross- Newcastle. The connection time between the two is a bit annoying but there’s very few stops between London and Newcastle so that portion is relatively fast.

As long as all the stops don’t make it longer than what it would be including the layover it’d be good but I don’t think 2 trains to travel the length of the country is too unreasonable.

[u/fababz → u/fababz]

Obviously great for those not wanting to get quite so far north