Durham is a through station with two platforms, located north of the city centre, on a hill. South of the station, the railway line approaches the station via the eleven arched Durham Viaduct; a major local landmark. After a renovation between 2006 and 2008, the original stone station building is now the ticket hall.
The city of Durham has been served by four stations, only one of which survives today:
Shincliffe (called Shincliffe Town from 1861): located in nearby Shincliffe, this station was built in 1839 and was served by the Durham and Sunderland Railway, using rope haulage until 1856. It closed when Elvet station opened in the city centre. A second station, Shincliffe, on the Leamside to Ferryhill line, was opened in 1844. That closed to passengers in 1941.
Durham (Gilesgate): opened in 1844, and within the city boundaries, it was served by a branch from Belmont on the Leamside Line, then the main line from London to Newcastle. Passenger services finished in 1857 with the opening of the current station on the branch from Leamside to Bishop Auckland but it continued in use as a goods shed until final closure in 1966. Today it has been redeveloped as a Travelodge hotel, while the serving track was used in the realignment of the A690 Gilesgate bypass road.
Durham: In 1857, a station on the current location and viaducts over North Road and the River Browney immediately to the south were built by the North Eastern Railway, on their Leamside to Bishop Auckland line to Bishop Auckland. The station was redeveloped in 1871, when the North Eastern Railway developed a new line from Tursdale through Relly Mill Junction to Durham, and onwards from Newton Hall Junction through Chester-le-Street to Newcastle Central via the Team Valley.[1] This became the main line, the current East Coast Main Line on 15 January 1872.[2]
Durham (Elvet): in 1893, the Durham-Sunderland branch was diverted from Shincliffe Town to a new station at Elvet, within the city boundary. It closed to regular passenger services in 1931 and fully closed in 1953.
The East Coast Main Line through Durham was electrified in 1991.
Current facilitiesEdit
Today, the station is owned by LNER and managed by London North Eastern Railway (LNER). It was refurbished between 2006 and 2008 by the operator Great North Eastern Railway (GNER) and later National Express East Coast (NXEC), which included a new passenger lounge, toilets, travel centre, glazed waiting area, lifts and shops. The entrance and ticket hall were moved from the "temporary" 1960s building into the original stone building following renovation and repairs. The works were completed in early 2008 and the newly renovated station won "Best Medium Station" and "Overall Station of the Year" at the 2008 National Rail Awards.[3] Ticket barriers were installed in 2009.
Platforms
After winning the intercity east coast rail franchise, former operator Virgin Trains East Coast (VTEC) opened an information office on platform 2, added new benches and perch seating and installed Wi-Fi connection. In 2017, all ticket barriers were removed as part of Virgin Trains East Coast's (VTEC) franchise commitment.
A Brompton Bicycle hire scheme was planned to open in 2018 - however since the demise of Virgin Trains East Coast (VTEC) the management of the station has since passed on to London North Eastern Railway (LNER).
Durham County Council, working with the North East Local Enterprise Partnership, have completed a project to improve cycle routes and pedestrian access to the station from the north of the city. This involved the construction of a new cycle path as well as upgrades to road crossings on Framwellgate path.
In order to accommodate the new London North Eastern Railway Class 800 and 801Azuma trains that entered service in mid 2019, platform 1 was extended north to a total length of 230 metres.[4]
Northern Trains' services at Durham are less frequent, with just three morning trains every weekday north to Newcastle (of which two run through to Carlisle via Hexham) and one evening train per day south to Darlington.
NotesEdit
^Plymouth trains generally run via Leeds, while Reading trains run via Doncaster.
^Cobb, Michael H. The Railways of Great Britain: A Historical Atlas
^Tomlinson, W.W. (1967, reprint of 1914 edition). North Eastern Railway, Its Rise and Development. Newton Abbot: David and Charles.
^"Durham named Britain's best railway station". The Northern Echo. 19 September 2008. from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
^"Plans to extend Durham rail station to accommodate longer trains | the Northern Echo". from the original on 16 January 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
^Table 26, 39, 44 & 51 National Rail timetable, Dec 2019
External linksEdit
Media related to Durham railway station at Wikimedia Commons
Train times and station information for Durham railway station from National Rail
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This article is about the railway station in County Durham England For other uses see Durham station disambiguation This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Durham railway station news newspapers books scholar JSTOR January 2010 Learn how and when to remove this template message Durham is a railway station on the East Coast Main Line which runs between London King s Cross and Edinburgh Waverley The station situated 14 miles 3 chains 14 0 miles 22 6 kilometres south of Newcastle serves the cathedral city of Durham in County Durham England It is owned by Network Rail and managed by London North Eastern Railway DurhamOriginal station building now the ticket hallGeneral informationLocationDurham County DurhamEnglandCoordinates54 46 47 N 1 34 53 W 54 7797488 N 1 5815122 W 54 7797488 1 5815122Grid referenceNZ269428Owned byNetwork RailManaged byLondon North Eastern RailwayPlatforms2Tracks3Other informationStation codeDHMClassificationDfT category C1HistoryOriginal companyNorth Eastern RailwayPre groupingNorth Eastern RailwayPost groupingLondon and North Eastern Railway British Rail Eastern Region Key dates1 April 1857OpenedPassengers2017 182 748 million2018 192 823 million Interchange 3 9832019 202 733 million Interchange 86 0442020 210 473 million Interchange 10 7002021 222 092 million Interchange 68 606LocationDurhamLocation in County Durham EnglandNotesPassenger statistics from the Office of Rail and RoadIt is managed and served frequently by London North Eastern Railway as a stop on the East Coast Main Line It is also served by CrossCountry TransPennine Express and Northern trains Durham is a through station with two platforms located north of the city centre on a hill South of the station the railway line approaches the station via the eleven arched Durham Viaduct a major local landmark After a renovation between 2006 and 2008 the original stone station building is now the ticket hall Contents 1 History 2 Current facilities 3 Services 4 Notes 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksHistory EditThe city of Durham has been served by four stations only one of which survives today Shincliffe called Shincliffe Town from 1861 located in nearby Shincliffe this station was built in 1839 and was served by the Durham and Sunderland Railway using rope haulage until 1856 It closed when Elvet station opened in the city centre A second station Shincliffe on the Leamside to Ferryhill line was opened in 1844 That closed to passengers in 1941 Durham Gilesgate opened in 1844 and within the city boundaries it was served by a branch from Belmont on the Leamside Line then the main line from London to Newcastle Passenger services finished in 1857 with the opening of the current station on the branch from Leamside to Bishop Auckland but it continued in use as a goods shed until final closure in 1966 Today it has been redeveloped as a Travelodge hotel while the serving track was used in the realignment of the A690 Gilesgate bypass road Durham In 1857 a station on the current location and viaducts over North Road and the River Browney immediately to the south were built by the North Eastern Railway on their Leamside to Bishop Auckland line to Bishop Auckland The station was redeveloped in 1871 when the North Eastern Railway developed a new line from Tursdale through Relly Mill Junction to Durham and onwards from Newton Hall Junction through Chester le Street to Newcastle Central via the Team Valley 1 This became the main line the current East Coast Main Line on 15 January 1872 2 Durham Elvet in 1893 the Durham Sunderland branch was diverted from Shincliffe Town to a new station at Elvet within the city boundary It closed to regular passenger services in 1931 and fully closed in 1953 On grouping in 1923 the stations came under the control of the London and North Eastern Railway Passenger services to Bishop Auckland and Sunderland via Penshaw were withdrawn by British Railways under the Beeching cuts on 4 May 1964 The East Coast Main Line through Durham was electrified in 1991 Current facilities EditToday the station is owned by LNER and managed by London North Eastern Railway LNER It was refurbished between 2006 and 2008 by the operator Great North Eastern Railway GNER and later National Express East Coast NXEC which included a new passenger lounge toilets travel centre glazed waiting area lifts and shops The entrance and ticket hall were moved from the temporary 1960s building into the original stone building following renovation and repairs The works were completed in early 2008 and the newly renovated station won Best Medium Station and Overall Station of the Year at the 2008 National Rail Awards 3 Ticket barriers were installed in 2009 nbsp PlatformsAfter winning the intercity east coast rail franchise former operator Virgin Trains East Coast VTEC opened an information office on platform 2 added new benches and perch seating and installed Wi Fi connection In 2017 all ticket barriers were removed as part of Virgin Trains East Coast s VTEC franchise commitment A Brompton Bicycle hire scheme was planned to open in 2018 however since the demise of Virgin Trains East Coast VTEC the management of the station has since passed on to London North Eastern Railway LNER Durham County Council working with the North East Local Enterprise Partnership have completed a project to improve cycle routes and pedestrian access to the station from the north of the city This involved the construction of a new cycle path as well as upgrades to road crossings on Framwellgate path In order to accommodate the new London North Eastern Railway Class 800 and 801 Azumatrains that entered service in mid 2019 platform 1 was extended north to a total length of 230 metres 4 Services EditvteLondon North Eastern RailwayLegend nbsp Inverness nbsp Carrbridge nbsp Aviemore nbsp Kingussie nbsp Newtonmore nbsp Blair Atholl nbsp Pitlochry nbsp Dunkeld amp Birnam nbsp Perth nbsp Gleneagles nbsp Dunblane nbsp Stirling nbsp Falkirk Grahamston nbsp nbsp Aberdeen nbsp nbsp Stonehaven nbsp nbsp Montrose nbsp nbsp Arbroath nbsp nbsp Dundee nbsp nbsp Leuchars nbsp nbsp Kirkcaldy nbsp nbsp Inverkeithing nbsp nbsp nbsp Glasgow Central nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Motherwell nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Haymarket nbsp nbsp Edinburgh Waverley nbsp nbsp Dunbar nbsp Reston nbsp Berwick upon Tweed nbsp Alnmouth nbsp Morpeth nbsp nbsp Sunderland nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Newcastle nbsp nbsp Durham nbsp Darlington nbsp nbsp Middlesbrough nbsp nbsp Thornaby nbsp nbsp nbsp Northallerton nbsp nbsp Skipton nbsp nbsp Keighley nbsp nbsp nbsp Bradford Forster Square nbsp nbsp nbsp York nbsp nbsp Shipley nbsp nbsp nbsp Harrogate nbsp nbsp nbsp Horsforth nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Hull Paragon nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Brough nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Selby nbsp nbsp nbsp Leeds nbsp nbsp nbsp Wakefield Westgate nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Doncaster nbsp Retford nbsp nbsp Lincoln nbsp nbsp nbsp Newark Northgate nbsp Grantham nbsp Peterborough nbsp Stevenage nbsp London King s Cross nbsp Northern TrainsRoute 2vteDurham Coast Line nbsp Newcastle nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Heworth nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Sunderland nbsp nbsp nbsp Seaham nbsp nbsp nbsp Horden nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Hartlepool nbsp nbsp nbsp Seaton Carew nbsp nbsp nbsp Billingham nbsp nbsp Stockton nbsp nbsp Thornaby nbsp nbsp nbsp Middlesbrough nbsp nbsp nbsp Most services extend to fromHexham or Nunthorpe Train services are provided by four companies London North Eastern Railway LNER CrossCountry TransPennine Express and Northern Trains 5 LNER serves Durham with one train per hour each way southbound to London King s Cross via Darlington York Doncaster and Peterborough and northbound to Edinburgh Waverley via Newcastle Some northbound services are extended beyond Edinburgh with one service per day to both Aberdeen via Dundee and Glasgow Central as well as one daily train to Sunderland via Newcastle instead of Edinburgh There is also one southbound train per day to Leeds via York instead of London CrossCountry operates services on the Cross Country Route Northbound the company runs two trains per hour to Newcastle of which one continues through to Edinburgh Waverley and one train every two hours is extended even further to Glasgow Central There are also two daily services that continue beyond Edinburgh to Dundee of which one is further extended to Aberdeen Southbound there are two trains per hour to Birmingham New Street via York Leeds Doncaster a Sheffield and Derby of these one train per hour continues to Plymouth via Bristol Temple Meads and Exeter St Davids and one continues to Reading via Oxford with two hourly further extensions to Southampton Central A few trains per day continue beyond Plymouth to Penzance TransPennine Express serves the station with two trains an hour each way In the northbound direction trains run to Newcastle and one train per hour is extended to Edinburgh Waverley Southbound trains generally run to Manchester Victoria via York Leeds and Huddersfield of the two hourly services one continues to Manchester Airport via Manchester Piccadilly and one runs further to Liverpool Lime Street Northern Trains services at Durham are less frequent with just three morning trains every weekday north to Newcastle of which two run through to Carlisle via Hexham and one evening train per day south to Darlington Notes Edit Plymouth trains generally run via Leeds while Reading trains run via Doncaster See also EditDurham ViaductReferences Edit Cobb Michael H The Railways of Great Britain A Historical Atlas Tomlinson W W 1967 reprint of 1914 edition North Eastern Railway Its Rise and Development Newton Abbot David and Charles Durham named Britain s best railway station The Northern Echo 19 September 2008 Archived from the original on 4 October 2013 Retrieved 1 October 2013 Plans to extend Durham rail station to accommodate longer trains the Northern Echo Archived from the original on 16 January 2019 Retrieved 16 January 2019 Table 26 39 44 amp 51 National Rail timetable Dec 2019External links Edit nbsp Media related to Durham railway station at Wikimedia Commons Train times and station information for Durham railway station from National RailPreceding station nbsp National Rail Following stationDarlingtonCrossCountry Cross Country RouteNewcastle CentralDarlingtonTransPennine Express North TransPennineChester le StreetDarlingtonNorthernTees Valley LineChester le StreetDarlington London North Eastern RailwayLondon Newcastle Edinburgh Newcastle Central Historical railways CroxdaleLine open station closed London and North Eastern RailwayEast Coast Main Line PlawsworthLine open station closedCroxdaleLine open station closed London and North Eastern RailwayLeamside Line LeamsideLine and station closedBrandon CollieryLine and station closed London and North Eastern RailwayDurham to Bishop Auckland Line TerminusUshaw MoorLine and station closed London and North Eastern RailwayDeerness Valley Railway TerminusAldin Grange for BearparkLine and station closed London and North Eastern RailwayLanchester Valley Railway Terminus Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Durham railway station amp oldid 1148130461 History, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
