Taking advantage of a
Northern Echo reader offer I purchased, for £10, an unlimited day pass on
Northern Rail, not as good a deal as you may expect as the company’s services
are limited to rather parochial lines, but I was able to plot a route from a
fog shrouded Darlington to a grey Middlesbrough (involving five stops) and then
to a blue-skied Hexham (fifteen stops), the latter journey enjoyably scenic in
parts, first up the misty North Sea coast and then along the sunlit Tyne valley;
a couple of hours in Hexham was enough to have a wander round and a good value
lunch upstairs at the cosy ‘Deli at number 4’ opposite the Abbey before getting
back to the station for the three hour return trip.
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