Middlesbrough

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Middlesbrough (1846-)

Station code: MBR National Rail
Where: North East England, England
Opened on the Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway.
Opened on the Middlesbrough Branch (Stockton and Darlington Railway).

Description

This is a two platform station. The main station building is on the westbound platform. The platforms are canopied. On the south side of the line and to the west of the station is the signal box, and at the east end several carriage sidings.

The station was opened in 1846 and rebuilt and expanded by the North Eastern Railway in 1877 on the same site. (The 1846 incarnation is sometimes referred to as the 3rd Middlesbrough station and the 1877 rebuild as the 4th).

The station opened with the Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway and was built on an alignment just to the south of the 1842 Middlesbrough Dock Goods alignment. A portion of this remains as the station's goods bypass. The connection to the older line is west of the station. Guisborough Junction, to the east of the station on the goods bypass, is where the goods connection from the Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway to the Middlesbrough Dock Goods line was made.

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Station

Aliases

Middlesbrough [3rd]




Chronology Dates

  /  /1846Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway
Line opened from Middlesbrough (passenger connection) and Guisborough Junction (goods/mineral), both off the Middlesbrough Branch (Stockton and Darlington Railway), to Redcar [1st]. Stations opened at Middlesbrough, Cleveland Port, Redcar [1st].
  /  /1877Middlesbrough Branch (Stockton and Darlington Railway)
Middlesbrough station entirely rebuilt on same site.

News items

13/12/2021Azuma arrives in Middlesbrough as LNER launches direct services to London [Network Rail]
12/12/2021Azuma Arrives in Middlesbrough as LNER Launches Direct Services to London [LNER]
17/11/2021Railway signals in Middlesbrough now controlled from York after successful reliability upgrade [Network Rail]
13/11/2021Middlesbrough: Victorian signal boxes demolished in upgrade [BBC News]
10/11/2021A modern railway for Middlesbrough - Network Rail upgrades signalling this month [Network Rail]
04/02/2021Major improvements on scenic Esk Valley line as Network Rail upgrades 1940s track [Network Rail]
29/06/2020Horden train station opens today for first time in more than 50 years [ChronicleLive]
09/06/2020Middlesbrough Station gets £35m transformation [Northern Echo]
20/08/2018Politicians want train service to visit east Cleveland [Northern Echo]
29/05/2018Dramatic rise in passengers on Middlesbrough to Whitby railway [Northern Echo]