South Bank is a railway station on the Tees Valley Line, which runs between and via . The station, situated east of Middlesbrough, serves the town of

South Bank The South Bank is an entertainment and commercial district in central London, next to the River Thames opposite the City of Westminster. It forms a narrow strip of riverside land within the London Borough of Lambeth (where it adjoins Alber ...

, Redcar and Cleveland in North Yorkshire, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.

History

The first station, initially named ''Eston'', was built in 1853 by the

Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway The North Eastern Railway (NER) was an England, English rail transport, railway company. It was incorporated in 1854 by the combination of several existing railway companies. Later, it was amalgamated with other railways to form the London and ...

. On 1 May 1882, this was replaced by an island platform by the North Eastern Railway, to serve the growing town of

. Ironically, this was located on the same site as the present station. The 1882 station was closed on the same day that its replacement opened. It survived intact, but derelict for many years thereafter. It has since been demolished to allow the down (eastbound) line through the site to be realigned. In July 1984,

British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

opened the current station to the west, as the previous station was inconveniently sited in a heavily industrialised area, and in the way of a planned new dockside access road. The closure of the earlier station was closely followed by nearby

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on 22 January 1990, and Grangetown on 25 November 1991.

Facilities

Station facilities here have recently been improved as part of the Tees Valley Metro project. The package for this station included new fully lit waiting shelters, 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 usage estimates of 2014 and 2015 also make note of the fact that the service improvement has increased the patronage substantially enough to be in the top ten most percentage increase of passenger numbers across the whole of the United Kingdom.

Services

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

Saltburn Saltburn-by-the-Sea, commonly referred to as Saltburn, is a seaside town in Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England, around south-east of Hartlepool and southeast of Redcar. It lies within the historic boundaries of the North Ridin ...

and

Bishop Auckland Bishop Auckland () is a market town and civil parish at the confluence of the River Wear and the River Gaunless in County Durham, northern England. It is northwest of Darlington and southwest of Durham. Much of the town's early history surro ...

via

Darlington Darlington is a market town in the Borough of Darlington, County Durham, England. The River Skerne flows through the town; it is a tributary of the River Tees. The Tees itself flows south of the town. In the 19th century, Darlington underwen ...

. All services are operated by Northern Trains. Rolling stock used: Class 156 ''Super Sprinter'' and Class 158 ''Express Sprinter''

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{{Railway stations served by Northern Trains Railway stations in Redcar and Cleveland DfT Category F2 stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1882 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1984 Railway stations opened by British Rail Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1984 Northern franchise railway stations