00:00The projects are part of the £140 million regeneration of Darlington Station, which
00:06will see a new step-free footbridge and the creation of walkways beside the line around
00:10Durham Station.
00:12The old Allardeen Bridge in Gateshead will also be demolished as part of the National
00:16Highway's A1 upgrade.
00:18The weekend disruption will also hit thousands of Newcastle United fans travelling to London
00:23for the League Cup final at Wembley that takes place on the 16th March.
00:28Initially, Network Rail said they would work with LNER to see as many services as possible
00:33run, but they've since said it would cost several million pounds to change the plans
00:37now.
00:38LNER, Lumo, Grand Central, Norvin, TransPennine Express and Cross Country Services are operating
00:45a reduced service and have put on various bus replacement services.
00:50With quite a large proportion of the North East being affected by these temporary closures
00:54and delays, we asked your thoughts on this.
00:57Do you want, we need to book our tickets actually, and especially given what you've just said
01:01about there being cancellations for the next six weeks as we'll be going home for Easter.
01:05So yeah, I mean the LNER trains are nice, but they're just way too expensive, like you
01:11compare the prices of trains in the UK to across Europe, it's just ridiculous.
01:17Yeah, I know, last night I came on a rail replacement bus from York and they had like
01:25a 40 minute delay to the rail replacement bus in the rain, so we were standing in the
01:28rain for like 40 minutes, so it does, it's an issue in the sense that when you've made,
01:32we don't have jobs right now, so we don't have commitments that way, but if we have
01:36plans, like we do have to go to London next week, so we do have to take a rail replacement
01:39bus.
01:40Yeah.
01:41So that's an issue because when you've paid a certain amount for a train and then you're
01:44kind of having to like get, you're not getting your money's worth.
01:48Yeah, whatsoever, that's a little bit of an issue.
01:50Our professors and our teachers as well, sometimes they travel in and if there's like
01:55train strikes coming from wherever they are, it cancels our lessons, it cancels our learning
01:59as well, so.
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