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Stockton railway station serves the town of Stockton-on-Tees, within the borough of Stockton-on-Tees and the ceremonial county of County Durham, England. The railway station is located on the Durham Coast Line and is operated by Northern Rail who provide all of the stations passenger services. Thornaby railway station, across the River Tees from Stockton-on-Tees provides a wider range of services and acts as the main railway station for most of Stockton-on-Tees. The station originally had a roof but it was removed in 1979 due to being in a bad state of repair and it has not been replaced since. Station facilities here have recently been improved and included new fully lit waiting shelters and the installation of CCTV. The long-line Public Address system (PA) has been renewed and upgraded with pre-recorded train announcements. Grand Central Railway services between Sunderland and London Kings Cross pass through the station but do not stop here. ==History== In 1852 the Leeds Northern Railway (LNR), which had been renamed from the Leeds and Thirsk Railway in 1849, extended its route northwards from to Billingham-on-Tees (the now-closed original Billingham station) by way of and . One of the intermediate stations on the line was at ''Stockton-on-Tees'', this station opening on 2 June 1852; it was very soon renamed, becoming ''North Stockton'' in either 1852 or 1853. Not long after, in 1854, the LNR amalgamated with several other railways to form the North Eastern Railway (NER). On 1 November 1892 it resumed its original name, and this was retained until 1985 when British Rail simplified the name to ''Stockton''.〔 The current station is not at the same location as the former terminus of the Stockton and Darlington Railway (though using the same name) - it was constructed in 1892/3 by the NER to replace the earlier one referred to above, which was shared by the LNR and the Stockton and Hartlepool Railway. The station was also served (albeit indirectly) by the Clarence Railway lines from and Simpasture Junction via , which joined the Leeds Northern line at Norton and also by the NER-built route to Wellfield (where it connected to the West Hartlepool - Haswell - Sunderland line) from 1880. These routes were built primarily to convey coal from the many collieries in the area to the docks at Middlesbrough, but the Ferryhill & Wellfield lines also had local passenger services that called here. Trains on the Wellfield route were withdrawn by the LNER in November 1931, whilst the Ferryhill service ended in March 1952.〔("When Coal Was King: Chapter 2 - Railways" ) www.east-durham.co.uk; Retrieved 2013-12-18〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stockton railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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