Heritage railway stations · North East England
British Steel Redcar railway station
British Steel Redcar railway station in England North East, United Kingdom.
Alan Murray-Rust — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
British Steel Redcar railway station is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Redcar British Steel (also known as British Steel Redcar) is a mothballed railway station on the Tees Valley Line, which runs between Bishop Auckland and Saltburn via Darlington. The station, situated 5+3⁄4 miles (9 km) east of Middlesbrough, served the Teesside Steelworks, Redcar and Cleveland in North Yorkshire, England. At the time of the suspension of services, the station was owned by Network Rail and managed by Arriva Rail North.
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Background
History
The station was opened by British Rail on 19 June 1978. It is situated on a re-sited portion of route that was commissioned to allow the previous alignment to be used for an expansion of the Teesside Steelworks. This included a station at , which was closed and replaced by the current station. In the 2014–15 period, the Office of Rail and Road recorded a total of 1,570 entries and exits. In 2015, the majority of the Teesside Steelworks closed, resulting in a drop in passenger usage of the station. In the 2016–17 period the entries and exits dropped to fifty, making it the fourth-least-used station in Britain. In the 2017–18 period it was named the least used station in Britain, with only…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 54.6096, -1.1130
- Address
- | borough = Redcar, Redcar and Cleveland
- Established
- 1978
Sources
- wikidata: Q13528433 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Redcar British Steel railway station (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is British Steel Redcar railway station?
- British Steel Redcar railway station is in North-East England, United Kingdom.
- When was British Steel Redcar railway station built?
- Built or established in 1978.
- Who owns British Steel Redcar railway station?
- British Steel Redcar railway station is owned by Northern Trains.