Billingham railway station
Billingham is a railway station on the Durham Coast Line, which runs between Newcastle and Middlesbrough via Hartlepool. The station, situated 10 miles 8 chains (16.3 km) north-west of Middlesbrough, serves the town of Billingham, Borough of Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
Billingham railway station
Looking south-west from the former station at Billingham, photographed in May 1965.
The station in 2011
The Durham Coast Line is an approximately 39.5-mile (63.6 km) railway line running between Newcastle and Middlesbrough in North East England. Heavy rail passenger services, predominantly operated Northern Trains, and some freight services operate over the whole length of the line; it provides an important diversionary route at times when the East Coast Main Line is closed. Light rail services of the Tyne and Wear Metro's Green Line also operate over the same tracks between a junction just south of Sunderland station and Pelaw Junction.
Looking south-east along the line towards Horden, as it leaves Seaham.
Londonderry, Seaham & Sunderland Railway No. 21, at the front of what is likely an LS&SR passenger train, during the final years of the line's independence in the 1890s.
The Monkwearmouth Railway Bridge (left) alongside the Wearmouth Road Bridge (right) in Sunderland, seen in 2006.
Horden Viaduct, which carries the line over Castle Eden Dene, in June 2011.