South Bank railway station (England)

South Bank railway station serves South Bank, in Redcar and Cleveland unitary authority in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is on the Tees Valley Line 2.5 miles (4 km) east of Middlesbrough and operated by Northern Trains, which provides all passenger train services.

"South Bank station" redirects here. For other uses, see South Bank station (disambiguation).

South Bank
Location
PlaceSouth Bank
Local authorityRedcar and Cleveland
Coordinates54.584°N 1.177°W / 54.584; -1.177
Grid referenceNZ532212
Operations
Station codeSBK
Managed byNorthern Trains
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryF2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 22,860
2015/16 21,846
2016/17 23,926
2017/18 21,426
2018/19 23,282
History
1882Original Station Opened
23 July 1984Resited
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at South Bank from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Station facilities here have recently been improved as part of the Tees Valley Metro project. The package for this station included new fully lit waiting shelters, renewed station signage and the installation of CCTV. The long-line Public Address system (PA) has been renewed and upgraded with pre-recorded train announcements.

The present station was opened in July 1984 by British Rail to replace a previous structure situated half a mile (0.8 km) farther east that was inconveniently sited in the middle of a heavily industrialised area and in the way of a planned new dockside access road. This previous station, with its island platform was opened by the NER in 1882 to serve the growing town of South Bank and replaced the original station (initially called Eston) built in 1853 by the Middlesbrough & Redcar Railway. Ironically, this was located on the same site as the present station. The 1882 station was closed on the same day that its replacement opened; this survived intact but derelict for many years thereafter but has since been demolished to allow the down (eastbound) line through the site to be realigned.[1]

Two other closed stations were also located either side of South Bank on this stretch of line: Grangetown (closed November 1991)[2][3] and Cargo Fleet (closed January 1990).[4][5]

Services
Northern Trains Route 3:
Bishop & Tees Valley Lines
 Bishop Auckland
Shildon
Newton Aycliffe
Heighington
North Road
East Coast Main Line to Edinburgh
 Darlington
East Coast Main Line to London King's Cross
 Dinsdale
 Teesside Airport
Allens West
Northallerton to Eaglescliffe Line
 Eaglescliffe
Durham Coast Line to Newcastle
 Thornaby
Middlesbrough
Esk Valley Line to Whitby
 South Bank
British Steel Redcar
 Redcar Central
Redcar East
Longbeck
Marske
Saltburn
There are currently no trains calling at
British Steel Redcar until further notice.

Since the timetable change of December 2013, there is now an hourly basic service from the station in both directions (including Sundays) westbound to Middlesbrough (and hence to Darlington and Bishop Auckland) and eastbound to Saltburn.[6] This is a major improvement on the former service level of just 3 trains in each direction per weekday (peak hours only) that applied prior to the December 2012 timetable change. Tees Valley Unlimited, a partnership between local councils successfully campaigned to enhance service patterns at South Bank from existing services on the line.[7]

The station usage estimates of 2014 and 2015 also make note of the fact that the service improvement has increased the patronage substantially enough to be in the top ten most percentage increase of passenger numbers across the whole of the United Kingdom.[8][9]

  • Entrance to the station closest to the River Tees, showing a 1980s-style British Rail station name sign (the rest of the station signage is in Northern styling).
  • Opposite end of the footbridge to the previous picture, showing the decrepit nature of the station. This entrance is closest to the town.

References
  1. Disused Stations – South Bank www.disused-stations.org.uk; Retrieved 26 July 2013
  2. Hunt, J – article in RAIL Magazine Issue 610, (January 2009) pp 47–49
  3. "List of dates from 1 January 1985 to 20 January 2006 of last passenger trains at closed BR (or Network Rail stations since privatisation)" (PDF). Department for Transport Website: Freedom of Information Act responses, February 2006. Department for Transport. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 May 2009. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  4. Disused Stations – Cargo Fleet; Retrieved 2 December 2013
  5. Cargo Fleet Railway Station Thompson, Nigel – Geograph.org; Retrieved 2 December 2013
  6. GB eNRT May 2018 Edition, Table 44
  7. "Tees Valley Unlimited Rail Progress Report" (PDF). Tees Valley Unlimited. December 2013. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  8. Robson, Dave (16 December 2015). "Guess which Teesside Railway station is in the UK top ten for highest passenger percentage increase". Gazette Live. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  9. "Estimates of station usage" (PDF). ORR. ORR. 15 December 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Redcar Central   Northern Trains
Tees Valley Line		   Middlesbrough
  Historical railways  
Grangetown
Line open, station closed		   London and North Eastern Railway
Tees Valley Line		   Cargo Fleet
Line open, station closed
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