Northallerton–Eaglescliffe line

The Northallerton–Eaglescliffe line runs between the towns of Northallerton and Eaglescliffe. It connects the East Coast Main Line to the Tees Valley Line. It was built by the Leeds Northern Railway as part of their main line from Leeds to Stockton (via Harrogate and Ripon) which opened on 2 June 1852,[1] although the connection to the ECML at the Northallerton end was not opened for a further four years.

Northallerton–Eaglescliffe line
Special train in Yarm station, 2003
Overview
System	National Rail
Locale	North Yorkshire Yorkshire and the Humber North East England
Operation
Opened	2 June 1852
Owner	National Rail
Technical
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ^1⁄2 in)

Northallerton to Eaglescliffe Line
Year closed Tees Valley Line to Saltburn Durham Coast Line to Newcastle Eaglescliffe Tees Valley Line to Bishop Auckland Yarm Viaduct Yarm Picton 1960 Picton to Battersby Line 1954 West Rounton Gates 1939 Welbury 1954 Brompton 1965 Northallerton Town 1856 East Coast Main Line Freight line Northallerton East Coast Main Line

Stations

Open

The current stations on the line are:

• Northallerton
• Yarm
• Eaglescliffe

Closed

A number of stations that used to serve towns and villages on the line were closed between 1954 and the end of local passenger services over the route on 6 September 1965, with those at Picton, Yarm and Brompton being the last to go. The station at Yarm was subsequently reopened by Regional Railways North East in February 1996.[2]

Services

Services are run by TransPennine Express between Manchester Airport and Middlesbrough. Services are roughly hourly and call at all stations as part of the North TransPennine route.

The line is part of the Grand Central route between Sunderland and London King's Cross[3] and sees use by a variety of heavy freight services to/from Teesside, including petroleum from Port Clarence, steel trains to and from Hartlepool, Scunthorpe and Aldwarke,[4] the Freightliner terminal at Teesport and waste traffic to Wilton EFW.[5]

The line is also part of a diversionary route to Newcastle using the Durham Coast Line when the East Coast Main Line route via Darlington and Durham Is closed.

Notes

1. Body, G (1988). PSL Field Guides - Railways of the Eastern Region Volume 2. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 137. ISBN 1-85260-072-1.
2. Piggott, Nick, ed. (April 1996). "New station opens at Yarm". The Railway Magazine. Vol. 142 no. 1140. London: IPC. p. 18. ISSN 0033-8923.
3. "Train Routes | Grand Central". www.grandcentralrail.com. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
4. Shannon, Paul (September 2014). "British Freight Today - Metals". The Railway Magazine. Vol. 160 no. 1, 362. Horncastle: Morton's Media Group. p. 24. ISSN 0033-8923.
5. Buck, Martin (November 2016). Loco Review 2017 edition. Swindon: Freightmaster Publishing. pp. 56–57. ISBN 978-0-9933129-1-5.

External links

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