Aycliffe Lane railway station
Heighington 
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| Location | |
| Place | Newton Aycliffe |
| Local authority | County Durham |
| Coordinates | 54°35′50″N 1°34′54″W / 54.5972°N 1.5818°WCoordinates: 54°35′50″N 1°34′54″W / 54.5972°N 1.5818°W |
| Grid reference | NZ271224 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | HEI |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 11,458 |
| 2012/13 |
12,938 |
| 2013/14 |
15,606 |
| 2014/15 |
19,750 |
| 2015/16 |
 18,286 |
| History | |
| Original company | |
| Pre-grouping | North Eastern Railway |
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway |
| 27 September 1825 | Station opened as Aycliffe Lane |
| ? | Renamed Aycliffe and Heighington |
| 1 July 1871 | Renamed Aycliffe |
| 1 September 1874 | Renamed Heighington |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Heighington from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Heighington railway station located on Heighington Lane and serves Aycliffe Business Park (formerly Aycliffe Industrial Park) in the town of Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, England. The station is on the Tees Valley Line 5 3⁄4 miles (9.3 km) northwest of Darlington and is operated by Northern who provide all passenger train services. The station is on the Bishop Line and is somewhat unusual in that its platforms are staggered, sited either side of a level crossing. The station has kept its manual signal box (which supervises the aforementioned crossing, the connection into the Hitachi plant and the single line section south of here through to Darlington), but had its semaphore signals replaced by modern colour lights in November 2014,
The station is unmanned and has no ticket machine, so all tickets must be bought onboard the train or prior to travel. The amenities here were improved as part of the Tees Valley Metro project in 2013. The package for this station included new fully lit waiting shelters, renewed station signage, digital CIS displays and the installation of CCTV (all of the Tees Valley line stations apart from Teesside Airport and British Steel Redcar have been upgraded and provided with CIS displays). The long-line public-address system (PA) has been renewed and upgraded with pre-recorded train announcements. Running information can also be obtained by telephone and timetable poster boards. Step-free access is available to both platforms via ramps from the crossing.
The station lies on the route of the (S&D), the first passenger railway. The station's historical claim to fame is that the first train on that line, the Locomotion No. 1, was assembled here in 1825 before starting on its first journey.
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