DMU Operations: North Eastern Region
Newcastle - Darlington via Hartlepool
This was the coast route via Sunderland, Hartlepool and Stockton. The route map below is from the 1974 Paytrain timetable.
Sample Timetables
The Newcastle - Darlington services were just one of several main services covered in these timetables, others being Newcastle to Middlesbrough and Newcastle - Northallerton.
Images
2nd April 1981
E50170 displays Ripon on its destination blind when seen at Newcastle on April 2, 1981, 14 years after closure. Perhaps an April Fools from the day before? It was working the 18:12 Newcastle - Darlington via Hartlepool. John Carter.
2nd April 1981
In fading light on 2 April 1980 E50170 is seen at Newcastle, and despite 'Filey Holiday Camp' on the destination blind it is working the 18:12 Newcastle - Darlington via Hartlepool service. John Carter.
30th October 1985
The Class 101 is the 16:45 Newcastle - Darlington (which may have run via the coast), seen at Newcastle station on the 30th October 1985. Graeme Phillips Collection.
12th April 1986
53225 + 54392 at Monkwearmouth with the 17:35 Newcastle - Darlington service on April 12, 1986. Hamish Stevenson.