January 2022 - Project under planning stage; August 2021 - Northumberland County Council has awarded Morgan Sindall Infrastructure a contract to build six new railway stations; June 2021 - Funding is set to be announced once the final designs are approved; March 2021 - Northumberland County Council has launched a tender for the Northumberland line stations construction project; May 2020 - Northumberland County Council has instructed Aecom and SLC Rail to take its plans for a new rail service through the design phase; Project to be delivered in two phases; Project cost - GBP162mn