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Route

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The line on the approach to Hartlepool, as viewed from the site of Hart station in March 2016.

Leaving Middlesbrough, the line heads west, sharing the route of the Tees Valley Line, under the A19 Tees Flyover, around what remains of Tees Marshalling Yard and into the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees to reach Thornaby. Beyond Thornaby, the line traverses the Tees Bridge and branches sharply at Bowesfield Junction to join the route of the northbound Leeds Northern Railway (LNR) at Hartburn Junction, where Grand Central services from London join the line. After passing through Stockton, the line curves slightly to the west at the site of North Shore Junction (once the junction between the Clarence Railway (CR), LNR and later NER Billingham Beck Branch) before turning sharply to the east at Norton-on-Tees Junction where the freight-only Stillington line to Ferryhill and the East Coast Main Line diverges westwards. Having largely skirted around the village of Norton, the line passes through the site of Norton-on-Tees station (closed 1960) and then the original site of Billingham station (replaced 1966), after which the line, once-more, curves northwards (onto the route of the Stockton & Hartlepool Railway (S&HR)) at Billingham Junction where the now freight-only ex-CR line to Port Clarence and Seal Sands diverges and continues eastwards. Shortly beyond the junction, the current Billingham station is reached before the line leaves Billingham and crosses into the Borough of Hartlepool.

Once out of the Teesside Conurbation, the line runs through fairly flat, heavily industrialised land, much of which has been reclaimed from the Tees Estuary. The line passes through the site of Greatham station (closed 1991) and two short freight branches diverge. The longer of these joins the northbound DCL at Seaton Snook Junction and was opened by the NER on 1 June 1907 for goods traffic from Graythorp and a riverside basin at Seaton-on-Tees but today mainly provides a rail link to Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station.

Durham Coast Line
Newcastle Central Tyne and Wear Metro
King Edward VII Bridge & High Level Bridge
over River Tyne
Gateshead
Gateshead Interchange Tyne and Wear Metro
Gateshead Stadium Tyne and Wear Metro
Felling Tyne and Wear Metro
Heworth Tyne and Wear Metro
Pelaw Tyne and Wear Metro
Metro trains join main line
Springwell
(
closed
1872
)
Fellgate Tyne and Wear Metro
Brockley Whins Tyne and Wear Metro
Harton Branch
to Tyne Dock
East Boldon Tyne and Wear Metro
Seaburn Tyne and Wear Metro
Former freight line
to Sunderland North Dock
Stadium of Light Tyne and Wear Metro
Monkwearmouth
St Peter's Tyne and Wear Metro
Sunderland Tyne and Wear Metro
Ryhope East
Seaham Hall Dene
(private)
Seaham
Seaham Harbour
Hawthorn Tower Halt
(
1936–1946
for workmen
)
Hawthorn Dene Viaduct
over Hawthorn Burn
Easington
Horden
(
2020-
1905-1964
)
Denemouth Viaduct
over Castle Eden Burn
Blackhall Colliery
Blackhall Rocks
Crimdon Dene Viaduct
over Crimdon Beck
Hart
Hartlepool (HD&R)
Hartlepool
("West Hartlepool" until 1967)
Seaton Carew
Hartlepool Nuclear
Power Station
Delivery depot
Greatham[1]
Billingham
Billingham-on-Tees
(
first
station
)
Norton-on-Tees
Stockton
Thornaby
Newport
(
closed
1915
)
Middlesbrough

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TransPennine North West
3:26
Edinburgh Waverley (Edinburgh Trams St Andrew Sq.)
3:20
3:24
3:29
3:26
Edinburgh Waverley (Edinburgh Trams St Andrew Sq.)
3:20
3:29
3:15
Motherwell
3:06
Carstairs
2:27
Lockerbie
1:56
Carlisle
1:51
Penrith
1:28
Oxenholme Lake District
1:14
Lancaster
0:58
Preston
0:16
Manchester Piccadilly Manchester Metrolink
0:00
Manchester Airport Airport interchange Manchester Metrolink
Times shown are best times
from Liverpool Lime Street (left)
and Manchester Airport (right)

This is a route-map template for the TransPennine Express, a UK railway.

Note: Per consensus and convention, most route-map templates are used in a single article in order to separate their complex and fragile syntax from normal article wikitext. See these discussions [1],[2] for more information.


  1. ^ "List of dates from 1 January 1985 to 20 January 2006 of last passenger trains at closed BR (or Network Rail stations since privatisation)". Department for Transport Website: Freedom of Information Act responses, February 2006. Department for Transport. 2006. Archived from the original on 2009-06-07. Retrieved 2012-02-06.