Services
Darlington is well served by trains on the East Coast Main Line, with regular trains to London King's Cross (via York), Newcastle, Glasgow and Edinburgh operated by East Coast. Two trains per hour run towards London and Newcastle for much of the day, with hourly services to Edinburgh. There are also several daily services to Dundee & Aberdeen and also a daily direct service to Inverness. Due to the introduction of the new ECML timtable on 22nd May 2011 East Coast now only provide one daily direct service from London King's Cross to Glasgow Central which calls at Darlington.
CrossCountry services between Edinburgh/Newcastle and Birmingham New Street and beyond (to Oxford and Reading and to Bristol Temple Meads, Plymouth and Penzance) also call here twice each hour, along with hourly First TransPennine Express trains between Newcastle and Manchester Airport via Leeds, Huddersfield and Manchester Piccadilly.
Northern Rail run their Tees Valley line trains twice hourly to Middlesbrough, Redcar and Saltburn (hourly on Sundays), whilst the Bishop Auckland branch has a service every two hours for most of the day, increasing to hourly during the morning and evening peaks. The company also operates Sundays-only trains to Hartlepool and Whitby, although the latter only run during the summer months.
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