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Shildon railway station

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Place
  
Shildon

Station code
  
SHD

DfT category
  
F1

Number of platforms
  
2

Grid reference
  
NZ235257

Managed by
  
Northern

2011/12
  
58,478

Local authority
  
County Durham

Shildon railway station

Address
  
Shildon DL4 2DH, United Kingdom

Similar
  
National Railway Museum, Bishop Auckland railway st, Hackworth Park, North Road railway station, Newton Aycliffe railway st

Shildon railway station is on the Stockton and Darlington Railway in North East England and serves the town of Shildon in County Durham, England built by Timothy Hackworth. The station is on the Tees Valley Line and is operated by Northern, which provides all passenger train services. The station is on the Bishop Line, 9 34 miles (15.7 km) north west of Darlington.

Station facilities here have been improved as part of the Tees Valley Metro project. The package for this station included new fully lit waiting shelters, digital CIS displays, renewed station signage and the installation of CCTV. The long-line Public Address system (PA) has been renewed and upgraded with pre-recorded train announcements.

The station is unstaffed and all tickets must be purchased on the train or prior to travel, as there are no ticketing facilities here. Step-free access is available to both platforms via ramps, which were added in 2003 when the station was rebuilt in conjunction with the construction of the Shildon Locomotion Museum, sited alongside it on land formerly occupied by the sidings of the Shildon railway works.

The manual signal box here controls the immediate station area (including the siding connections into the museum), along with the single track section through Shildon tunnel to the west to the terminus at Bishop Auckland and the junction there with the now privately owned and operated Weardale Railway to Stanhope.

Services

There is a basic two-hourly service in each direction (increasing to hourly at peak times), west to Bishop Auckland and southeast to Darlington. Most of the latter continue through to Middlesbrough and Saltburn. On Sundays there is also a two-hourly service each way, with a single through train to and from Whitby via the Esk Valley Line between March and early November.

References

Shildon railway station Wikipedia