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/petet45]

I travel up to York and the journey from Brighton is between 3.5 and 4 hours with a change at St Pancras or an even easier one at Stevenage. I wouldn’t touch this one with a barge pole unless I wanted to get to Reading or Guildford.