Heighington railway station

Heighington
General information
Location	Heighington, County Durham England
Coordinates	54°35′50″N 1°34′54″W / 54.5971091°N 1.5817510°W / 54.5971091; -1.5817510
Grid reference	NZ271224
Owned by	Network Rail
Managed by	Northern Trains
Platforms	2
Tracks	2
Other information
Station code	HEI
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Original company	Stockton and Darlington Railway
Pre-grouping	North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway British Rail (North Eastern Region)
Key dates
27 September 1825 (1825-09-27)	Opened as Aycliffe Lane (horse-drawn)
1833	Operating 100% steam locomotives
1847	Renamed Aycliffe and Heighington
1 July 1871	Renamed Aycliffe
1 September 1874	Renamed Heighington
Passengers
2018/19	22,756
2019/20	25,278
2020/21	11,626
2021/22	29,072
2022/23	35,028
Services
Preceding station Northern Following station Newton Aycliffe towards Bishop Auckland Tees Valley Line North Road towards Saltburn via Darlington
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Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Heighington is a railway station on the Tees Valley Line, which runs between Bishop Auckland and Saltburn via Darlington. The station, situated 5 miles 62 chains (9.3 km) north-west of Darlington, serves the villages of Aycliffe and Heighington in County Durham, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.

The station is on the Bishop Line^[1] which is a community railway from Bishop Auckland to Darlington.^[2] It is somewhat unusual in that its platforms are staggered, sited either side of a level crossing.^[3] The station has kept its listed manual signal box (which supervises the aforementioned crossing, the connection into the Hitachi plant and the single line section south of here through to Darlington), but this had its semaphore signals replaced by colour lights when the connection into the Hitachi factory was installed and commissioned in November 2014.^[4]