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Sunderland Train Station

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Trains to Sunderland - Station Details and further Information on Sunderland Train Services

Sunderland Station, also known as Sunderland Central, is a National Rail and Tyne and Wear Metro station in Sunderland, north-east England. It is the only station in the country where both heavy rail and light rail services use the same platforms. Although the tracks are shared between Sunderland and Pelaw Metro Junction (a short distance east of Pelaw Metro station), Northern Rail trains do not call at any of the intermediate stations.

Since 2002 when the station was remodelled to accommodate Metro services the layout has been unique in Great Britain. The station has a large central island platform with each side split into two numbered platforms. Northern Rail services call at Platforms 1 and 4 at the northern end, while Platforms 2 and 3 at the southern end are for Metro services.

The current regional operator Northern Rail provides an off-peak service of one train per hour, cut from a half-hourly service on 12 December 2005, between Sunderland and Newcastle in both directions, with many trains also running to the MetroCentre shopping centre, Hexham, Carlisle and Middlesbrough.

The service to Newcastle Central Station is now considered an express service, calling only at Heworth, which is also served by the Metro, but the lines are segregated at this point. The former stopping service (which called at Seaburn, East Boldon and Brockley Whins) is now provided only by the Metro.

A bihourly transpennine service to Liverpool Lime Street was operated by Northern Spirit and subsequently Arriva Trains Northern from 1998, linking Sunderland to Manchester, Leeds, York, Darlington and Durham but the change of franchise holder to the First Keolis Group in December 2004 has resulted in the cessation of these services.

In January 2006, new operator Grand Central was granted permission to run three trains per day from Sunderland to London Kings Cross via Eaglescliffe (for Middlesbrough), Northallerton, Thirsk and York. Grand Central began running services on 18 December 2007.