Teesside Airport railway station
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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.
General information | |||||
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Location | Teesside International Airport, Middleton St George England | ||||
Coordinates | 54°31′07″N 1°25′31″W | ||||
Grid reference | NZ373138 | ||||
Owned by | Teesside International Airport | ||||
Managed by | Northern Trains | ||||
Platforms | 1 (not in use) [1] | ||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | TEA | ||||
Classification | DfT category F1 | ||||
History | |||||
Original company | British Rail (Eastern Region) | ||||
Key dates | |||||
3 October 1971 (1971-10-03) | Opened | ||||
May 2022 (2022-05) | Service Suspended | ||||
Passengers | |||||
2018/19 | 206 | ||||
2019/20 | 338 | ||||
2020/21 | 2 | ||||
2021/22 | 42 | ||||
2022/23 | 2 | ||||
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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]