Heighington railway station
| General information | |||||
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| Location | Heighington, County Durham England | ||||
| Coordinates | 54°35′50″N 1°34′54″W / 54.5971091°N 1.5817510°W | ||||
| Grid reference | NZ271224 | ||||
| Owned by | Network Rail | ||||
| Managed by | Northern Trains | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | HEI | ||||
| Classification | DfT category F2 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Stockton and Darlington Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | North Eastern Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | |||||
| Key dates | |||||
| April 1826 | Opened as Aycliffe Lane (horse-drawn) | ||||
| 1833 | Operating 100% steam locomotives | ||||
| 1847 | Renamed Aycliffe and Heighington | ||||
| 1 July 1871 | Renamed Aycliffe | ||||
| 1 September 1874 | Renamed Heighington | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 | 25,278 | ||||
| 2020/21 | 11,626 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 29,072 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 35,028 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 34,084 | ||||
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Heighington is a railway station on the Tees Valley Line, which runs between Bishop Auckland and Saltburn via Darlington. The station, situated 5 miles 62 chains (9.3 km) north-west of Darlington, serves the villages of Aycliffe and Heighington in County Durham, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains. It is possibly the world's first railway station, according to Historic England.
The station is on the Bishop Line which is a community railway from Bishop Auckland to Darlington. It is somewhat unusual in that its platforms are staggered, sited either side of a level crossing. The station has kept its listed 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 this had its semaphore signals replaced by colour lights when the connection into the Hitachi factory was installed and commissioned in November 2014.