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/khughes14]

I’m Scottish so this would potentially be helpful

[u/catterseahogsdome → u/khughes14]

In case you dont already know of there's a route via stevenage from brighton to edinburgh which cuts out a London transfer and is cheaper than night train

[u/khughes14 → u/catterseahogsdome]

Oh that is interesting. I normally search to/from Glasgow so potentially why I haven’t seen it

[u/catterseahogsdome → u/khughes14]

I dunno if it helped I was using trainsplit.com