Gypsy Lane railway station

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Gypsy Lane

Location

Place

Nunthorpe

Local authority

Middlesbrough

Operations

Station code

GYP

Managed by

Northern Rail

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

10,353

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Gypsy Lane from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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Gypsy Lane railway station serves the town of Nunthorpe within the borough of Middlesbrough in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Esk Valley Line and is operated by Northern Rail who provide all of the station's passenger services.

Please note that the Gypsy Lane crossing of the railway line in no longer a through road, the crossing is closed to through traffic.

[edit] Services

The December 2007 timetable brought about significant changes, and the service is now better than it has been since the mid 1980s when there was an hourly Nunthorpe:Middlesbrough service including seven Whitby trains.

Monday to Saturday: The service is made up of three elements.

The Esk Valley service between Middlesbrough and Whitby (4 trains each way per day)

A two hourly service between Nunthorpe and Newcastle/Hexham via Hartlepool (6 trains ew per day, although one is shunted to the siding in Middlesbrough on weekdays before continuing to Newcastle)

One train from Bishop Auckland (Darlington on Saturdays) to Nunthorpe

One train from Nunthorpe to Middlesbrough

There is no Sunday service except from the start of the Summer timetable to the end of September.