Teesside Airport train station

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Teesside Airport train station
A British Rail Class 142 train passes through the station without stopping
A British Rail Class 142 train passes through the station without stopping
Data
Location in the network Small stopover
Design Through station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation TEA
opening 3rd October 1971
Website URL National Rail - station details
location
City / municipality Darlington
Unitary Authority Darlington
Part of the country England
Country United Kingdom
Coordinates 54 ° 31 '7 "  N , 1 ° 25' 31"  W Coordinates: 54 ° 31 '7 "  N , 1 ° 25' 31"  W
Railway lines
List of train stations in the United Kingdom
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Teesside Airport train station serves Durham Tees Valley Airport in the Borough of Darlington or in the ceremonial county of Durham , England. With eight passengers getting on and off, it was the least used station in the UK between April 2013 and March 2014.

history

The station is on the original line of the Stockton and Darlington Railway , the oldest passenger railroad in the world, 5.5 miles from Darlington South Junction. It was opened by British Rail on October 3rd, 1971, and has two platforms that can accommodate a four-car train. The airport was renamed Durham Tees Valley Airport in 2004 , but the station still bears the old name. In 2007 Northern Rail put up new signs with the name Teesside Airport , but at National Rail the station is still called Tees-side Airport , as on the old signs.

links

The station is on the Tees Valley Line and is operated by Northern Rail and only served by one train in each direction on Sundays. The route is served by many more trains, but these do not stop at Teesside Airport. The airport itself is a 15-minute walk away and there is also a lack of disabled access, both reasons why the train station is not used often. In the past, the station had better connections (the 1986 British Rail timetable shows an hourly train every day of the week), but since the early 1990s the service has been scaled back to a minimal parliamentary offer to avoid the formal cost of closure to escape.

Timetable

Map showing the location of the station

On Saturday, October 24, 2009, a group of 26 people took the only scheduled trains to the station to point out the existence of the station and its poor connections. They asked those responsible to move the train station 500 meters closer to the airport terminal.

On October 27, 2010, the station was featured in the BBC Radio 4 report The Ghost Trains of Old England , mentioning the campaign and the fact that there is a working phone. In addition, the thesis was raised that many of the tickets that would be sold for journeys to or from this station were bought by railway enthusiasts as souvenirs and not used for actual journeys.

Other means of transport

There used to be a well-frequented connection to the airport with the Sky Express bus to Middlesbrough and Darlington. In 2011, the line to Middlesbrough was discontinued after Borough Stockton declined further financial support, the line to Darlington and Hurworth was integrated into the Arriva bus line 12. After even fewer passengers used this line in 2012, the last trips to the airport were also given up.

future

The station's railway line, the Tees Valley Line, is one of the lines to be modernized as part of the Tees Valley Metro project . The plan is to move the station closer to the airport. Then an operation with four trains per hour to Darlington and Saltburn will be offered.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nick Pigott: Waterloo still London's busiest station. In: The Railway Magazine. 158 (1334): 6.
  2. ↑ Station usage. Rail-reg.gov.uk, March 29, 2012, accessed April 26, 2012 .
  3. ^ A b John Yonge: Railway Track Diagrams 2: Eastern . Ed .: Gerald Jacobs. 3. Edition. Trackmaps, Bradford on Avon 2006, ISBN 0-9549866-2-8 , pp. Card 47C (First Issued 1994).
  4. ↑ RVJ Butt: The Directory of Railway Stations . Patrick Stephens Ltd, Yeovil 1995, ISBN 1-85260-508-1 , pp. 227 .
  5. ^ National Rail Inquiries - Station Facilities for Tees-side Airport. Nationalrail.co.uk, accessed April 26, 2012 .
  6. ↑ a b Rail buffs to highlight Teesside Airport 'ghost station'. In: The Journal. Trinity Mirror , October 14, 2009; accessed October 26, 2009 .
  7. ^ Jeremy Armstrong: Britain's least visited railway station had just fourteen passengers in a year. In: Daily Mirror. May 2, 2013, accessed April 9, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Airport outing bid to promote station. In: The Northern Echo. Newsquest, October 14, 2009, accessed October 26, 2009 .
  9. ↑ Busy day at rarely-used train station. In: The Northern Echo. Newsquest, October 26, 2009, accessed October 26, 2009 .
  10. ^ The Ghost Trains of Old England. In: Radio 4 . BBC , October 27, 2010, accessed November 11, 2010 .
  11. ^ Tees Valley Metro. (PDF) Darlington Transport Forum, October 6, 2008, accessed December 29, 2008 .

Web links

Commons : Teesside Airport Train Station  - Collection of images, videos and audio files