Shildon railway station
Shildon 
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| Location | |
| Place | Shildon |
| Local authority | County Durham |
| Grid reference | NZ235257 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | SHD |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 58,478 |
| 2012/13 |
 56,128 |
| 2013/14 |
62,270 |
| 2014/15 |
50,696 |
| 2015/16 |
45,816 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Shildon from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Shildon railway station is on the in North East England and serves the town of Shildon in County Durham, England built by Timothy Hackworth. The station is on the Tees Valley Line and is operated by Northern, which provides all passenger train services. The station is on the Bishop Line, 9 3⁄4 miles (15.7 km) north west of Darlington.
Station facilities here have been improved as part of the Tees Valley Metro project. The package for this station included new fully lit waiting shelters, digital CIS displays, 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 station is unstaffed and all tickets must be purchased on the train or prior to travel, as there are no ticketing facilities here. Step-free access is available to both platforms via ramps, which were added in 2003 when the station was rebuilt in conjunction with the construction of the Shildon Locomotion Museum, sited alongside it on land formerly occupied by the sidings of the Shildon railway works.
The manual signal box here controls the immediate station area (including the siding connections into the museum), along with the single track section through Shildon tunnel to the west to the terminus at Bishop Auckland and the junction there with the now privately owned and operated Weardale Railway to Stanhope.
There is a basic two-hourly service in each direction (increasing to hourly at peak times), west to Bishop Auckland and southeast to Darlington. Most of the latter continue through to Middlesbrough and Saltburn. On Sundays there is also a two-hourly service each way, with a single through train to and from Whitby via the Esk Valley Line between March and early November.
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