Shildon is a railway station serving the town of

Shildon Shildon is a town and civil parish in County Durham, in England. The population taken at the 2011 Census was 9,976. The town has the Locomotion Museum, due to it having the first , built in 1825, and locomotive works on the Stockton and Darli ...

in County Durham, England on the

Tees Valley Line The Tees Valley Line is a rail route, in Northern England, following part of the original Stockton and Darlington Railway route of 1825. The line covers a distance of , and connects to via , and 14 other stations in the Teesdale. The secti ...

, between and via . The station, situated north-west of Darlington, It is owned by

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and managed by

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History

The original station was constructed by

Timothy Hackworth Timothy Hackworth (22 December 1786 – 7 July 1850) was an English steam locomotive engineer who lived in Shildon, County Durham, England and was the first locomotive superintendent of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. Youth and early wor ...

. It opened on 27 September 1825, under the Stockton and Darlington Railway.

Facilities

Station facilities here have been improved as part of the Tees Valley Metro project. The package for this station included new fully lit waiting shelters, digital CIS displays, renewed station signage and the installation of CCTV. The long-line Public Address system (PA) has been renewed and upgraded with pre-recorded train announcements. The station is unstaffed and all tickets must be purchased from the ticket vending machine on the platform prior to travel. Step-free access is available to both platforms via ramps, which were added in 2003 when the station was rebuilt in conjunction with the construction of the

Shildon Locomotion Museum Locomotion, previously known as Locomotion the National Railway Museum at Shildon, is a railway museum in Shildon, County Durham, England. The museum was renamed in 2017 when it became part of the Science Museum Group. Overview The museum was ...

, sited alongside it on land formerly occupied by the sidings of the

Shildon railway works Shildon railway works opened in 1833 in the town of Shildon in County Durham, England. Originally built to serve the Stockton and Darlington Railway the works grew to cover ( roofed), employing 2750 staff. History Shildon was the terminus ...

. The grade II listed manual signal box here controls the immediate station area (including the siding connections into the museum), along with the single track section through Shildon tunnel to the west and terminus at . Bishop Auckland is the junction with the now privately owned and operated

Weardale Railway The Weardale Railway is an independently-owned British single-track branch line heritage railway between , Witton-le-Wear, Wolsingham, Frosterley and Stanhope. Weardale Railway began services on 23 May 2010, but decided to run special trains r ...

to Stanhope.

Services

As of the May 2021 timetable change, the station is served by an hourly service between

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and Bishop Auckland via Darlington. All services are operated by

. Rolling stock used: Class 156 ''Super Sprinter'' and Class 158 ''Express Sprinter''

References

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* * Stockton and Darlington Railway Railway stations in County Durham DfT Category F1 stations Former North Eastern Railway (UK) stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1825 Northern franchise railway stations Shildon {{NorthEastEngland-railstation-stub