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Route

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.

• Middlesbrough
• Thornaby
• Stockton
• Billingham
• Seaton Carew
• Hartlepool
• Seaham
• Sunderland
• Heworth
• Newcastle

Durham Coast Line
East Coast Main Line to Edinburgh Waverley Tyne & Wear Metro to Newcastle Airport & St James Newcastle Central King Edward VII Bridge & High Level Bridge over River Tyne Gateshead Gateshead Interchange East Coast Main Line to Darlington & Tyne Valley line to Carlisle Gateshead Stadium Felling Heworth  A184  Pelaw Leamside line to Leamside Tyne & Wear Metro to South Shields & Freight line to Jarrow Metro trains join main line Springwell ( closed 1872 )  A194  Fellgate  A19  Stanhope and Tyne Railway to Consett Brockley Whins Stanhope and Tyne Railway (freight) to Tyne Dock Harton Branch to Tyne Dock East Boldon Seaburn Former freight line to Sunderland North Dock Stadium of Light Hylton, Southwick & Monkwearmouth Rly to Washington Monkwearmouth St Peter's Monkwearmouth Railway Bridge over River Wear Sunderland Docks Sunderland Tyne & Wear Metro to South Hylton Durham–Sunderland line to Durham Elvet 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 Hartlepool Dock & Railway to Haswell & Ferryhill Hart Hartlepool (HD&R) Hartlepool Docks West Hartlepool Docks Hartlepool ("West Hartlepool" until 1967) Seaton Carew Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station Delivery depot Greatham Billingham Clarence Railway (freight) to Seal Sands Billingham-on-Tees ( first station )  A19  Norton-on-Tees Clarence Railway (freight) to Ferryhill Stockton Castle Eden Railway to Wellfield Tees Valley line to Darlington Surtees Rail Bridge over River Tees Thornaby Tees Marshalling Yard  A19  Newport ( closed 1915 ) Middlesbrough Tees Valley line to Saltburn Esk Valley line to Whitby

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TransPennine North West
3:26 Edinburgh Waverley ( St Andrew Sq.) 3:20 Haymarket 3:24 3:29 Glasgow Central ( St Enoch) 3:26 Edinburgh Waverley ( St Andrew Sq.) 3:20 Haymarket 3:29 Glasgow Central ( St Enoch) 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 0:00 Manchester Airport Times shown are best times from Liverpool Lime Street (left) and Manchester Airport (right)

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