Teesside Airport  | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Teesside International Airport, Middleton St George England | ||||
| Coordinates | 54°31′07″N 1°25′31″W / 54.5185307°N 1.4253339°W | ||||
| Grid reference | NZ373138 | ||||
| Owned by | Teesside International Airport | ||||
| Managed by | Northern Trains | ||||
| Platforms | 1 (not in use) [1] | ||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||
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| Station code | TEA | ||||
| Classification | DfT category F1 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | British Rail (Eastern Region) | ||||
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| 3 October 1971 | Opened | ||||
| May 2022 | Service Suspended | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2018/19 |  206 | ||||
| 2019/20 | 338 | ||||
| 2020/21 |  2 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 42 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 2 | ||||
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Teesside Airport railway station is on the Tees Valley line which runs between Bishop Auckland and Saltburn via Darlington in County Durham, England. The station is 5.5 miles (9 km) east of Darlington and about 1 mile (1.6 km) from Teesside International Airport, which owns the station. It is managed by Northern Trains, which also operated the limited service calling at the station prior to its temporary closure in 2022.
Teesside Airport is one of Britain's least-used railway stations, with an estimated 338 passenger journeys made during 2019/20. In both 2012/13 and 2013/14 it was the least-used station in the country, serving just eight passengers per year.[2][3] In 2020/21, due to decreased travel throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the station saw only two passenger journeys made.[4]
While remaining officially open, the station has seen its service suspended since May 2022 with the one operational platform condemned as unsafe. Because of this, there were only 2 passengers in the year beginning April 2022.[5]
- ^ https://teesvalley-ca.gov.uk/investments/teesside-international-airport-railway-station/
- ^ Pigott, Nick, ed. (June 2012). "Waterloo still London's busiest station". The Railway Magazine. Vol. 158, no. 1334. Horncastle, Lincs.: Mortons Media Group. p. 6.
- ^ "Revealed: Britain's busiest and quietest stations". BBC News. 15 December 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
- ^ Nolan, Laura (1 December 2021). "Vlogger Paul Lucas only person to use Teesside Airport train station". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
- ^ "All change for most used stations as Elizabeth line shakes up top 10 | Office of Rail and Road". www.orr.gov.uk. Retrieved 14 December 2023.