Trains to Thornaby - Station Details and further Information on Thornaby Train Services
Thornaby train station serves the town of Thornaby-on-Tees and due to having better connections than Stockton train station also much of Stockton-on-Tees. It is located in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees and in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire. It is currently operated by First TransPennine Express.
All trains on the Tees Valley Line and Durham Coast Line call at the station, giving it hourly services northbound to Sunderland & Newcastle and half-hourly trains westbound to Darlington and eastbound to Saltburn each weekday. Certain Darlington-bound trains continue on to Bishop Auckland (two-hourly off peak, increasing to hourly at peak times). First TransPennine Express services to York, Leeds and Manchester Airport also stop here every hour. All eastbound trains call (or terminate) at Middlesbrough.
On Sundays there is an hourly service on the Tees Valley line (two-hourly to Bishop Auckland) and a two-hourly service to both Newcastle and Manchester Airport.
The two platform station suffered a gradual decline and reduction in facilities from the 1960s onwards resulting in an unmanned, "bus shelter" standard by the turn of century. However thanks to its significant level of patronage, much of which is due to being located next to the Teesdale development area and Durham University's Queen's Campus, Stockton, and its importance as an interchange station it was substantially modernised in a £500,000 project led by Arriva Trains Northern, the SRA and Stockton-on-Tees borough council. The newly rebuilt station was officially opened by local MP Dari Taylor on 7 February 2003 and now provides an enlarged car park, heated waiting room, manned ticket office, a shop, VDU displays and better lighting and security. As a result of this improvement work, and the return of staffing, Thornaby won a National Station of the Year Award in the 2003 HSBC Rail Awards. |
