Date: 29/12/2017

A platform and the footbridge at one of the least-used stations in the UK are to be removed. Teesside Airport Station, a kilometre from Durham Tees Valley Airport, was used by only 98 passengers in the past year, and 32 in the previous one. It is served by a weekly train in each direction between Hartlepool and Darlington, which Northern Rail has now said will only run one way. It will stop at the airport-side platform, with the other side removed.

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'Little-used' station loses platform

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The single weekly service between Hartlepool and Darlington is being cut to only one direction.

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The epitome of Parliamentary services, this is Teesside Airport station, which only has one train calling in each direction per week. Opened in 1971 it once had an hourly service but is some distance from the airport terminal and was little used. In 2016 only 98 passenger journeys were recorded and that was considerably more than many previous years. This view taken from the A67 but the station cannot be accessed from this road.
Location: Teesside Airport
Company: Stockton and Darlington Railway
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