Middlesbrough railway station

Middlesbrough
Location
Place	Middlesbrough
Local authority	Middlesbrough
Coordinates	54°34′45″N 1°14′05″W / 54.579100°N 1.234720°W / 54.579100; -1.234720Coordinates: 54°34′45″N 1°14′05″W / 54.579100°N 1.234720°W / 54.579100; -1.234720
Grid reference	NZ495207
Operations
Station code	MBR
Managed by	First TransPennine Express
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	1.121 million
2005/06 *	1.201 million
2006/07 *	1.242 million
2007/08 *	1.301 million
2008/09 *	1.412 million
2009/10 *	1.393 million
History
Opened 1877 (1877)
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Middlesbrough from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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Middlesbrough railway station serves the large town of Middlesbrough in the borough of Middlesbrough and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. The station is managed by First TransPennine Express and has two platforms. There are also two avoiding freight lines to the north of the station.

History

Although the first railway was built in the area as long ago as 1830 as an extension of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and extended eastwards to Redcar in 1846, the current station dates from 1877^[1] – it was designed by the North Eastern Railway's chief architect William Peachey with an ornate Gothic style frontage. Behind this an overall roof of elliptical design once existed. Constructed out of wrought iron of lattice design, with glass covering the middle half and timber (inside)/slate (outside) covering the outer quarters. The two end screens were glazed with timber cladding around the outer edges. The roof was high in relation to its width.^[2] This was destroyed by German bombs on 3 August 1942.^[3]

Services

The station is served by a number of routes:

The Tees Valley Line from Bishop Auckland & Darlington to Saltburn. Monday to Saturday daytimes there's a service every 30 minutes to Darlington & Saltburn and every second hour to Bishop Auckland. Sundays see an hourly service to Darlington/Saltburn and a two-hourly service to Bishop Auckland.

The Esk Valley Line to Whitby via Nunthorpe and Grosmont. There is a limited service (four departures per day) on the Whitby branch with a few extra trains as far as Nunthorpe. There is an irregular Sunday service (five each way, some running through to/from Darlington or Newcastle) during the summer timetable period from May until late September.

The Durham Coast Line to Newcastle via Hartlepool and Sunderland. There is a train every hour to Newcastle (some of which continue along the Tyne Valley Line) and every two hours on Sundays.

The North Trans-Pennine line to Manchester Airport via York and Leeds (operated by First TransPennine Express). Monday to Saturdays there is and hourly service to Manchester Airport and every two hours on Sundays. First Transpennine also operate a once daily return service to Liverpool.

All routes apart from that to Manchester are operated by Northern Rail.

Notes

1. ^ Body, pp. 118–9
2. ^ Delplanque, Paul. "Middlesbrough Railway Station...Then and now". GazetteLive. http://rememberwhen.gazettelive.co.uk/2010/02/middlesbrough-railway-stationt.html. Retrieved 21 January 2011. 
3. ^ Hunt, J - RAIL Magazine article (January 2009, Issue 610) p. 50

References

• Body, G. (1988), PSL Field Guides - Railways of the Eastern Region Volume 2, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Wellingborough, ISBN 1-85260-072-1

External links

• Train times and station information for Middlesbrough railway station from National Rail
• Buses from the station
• Buses to the station

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Thornaby		First TransPennine Express North TransPennine		Terminus
Terminus		Northern Rail Durham Coast Line		Thornaby
		Northern Rail Esk Valley Line		Marton
Redcar Central		Northern Rail Tees Valley Line		Thornaby
South Bank
	Disused railways
Terminus		Middlesbrough & Guisborough Railway		Ormesby