Gypsy Lane railway station

Gypsy Lane
Gypsy Lane railway station July 2015
Location
Place	Nunthorpe
Local authority	Redcar and Cleveland
Coordinates	54°32′00″N 1°10′49″W / 54.533330°N 1.180360°WCoordinates: 54°32′00″N 1°10′49″W / 54.533330°N 1.180360°W
Grid reference	NZ531156
Operations
Station code	GYP
Managed by	Northern
Number of platforms	1
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	23,566
2011/12	22,692
2012/13	21,900
2013/14	23,716
2014/15	26,398
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Gypsy Lane from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Gypsy Lane railway station serves the Middlesbrough suburbs of Nunthorpe and Marton; the station lies just within the borough of Redcar and Cleveland in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Esk Valley Line and is operated by Northern who provide all of the station's passenger services. The station was originally opened by British Rail in 1976.

Station facilities here have recently been improved as part of the successful Tees Valley Metro project. The package for this station included new fully lit waiting shelters, 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. A passenger information screen with details of train times was installed at the station in February 2016.

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 Saturdays, there is now an hourly service (17 per day) in each direction. Four of these comprise the through service to/from Whitby, whilst the remainder run between Newcastle Central and Nunthorpe (except for two each way that operate between Nunthorpe and Darlington instead).^[1] The improved service was introduced concurrently with the opening of the new James Cook railway station on 18 May 2014.

Sundays:

The Esk Valley Middlesbrough - Whitby service runs for approximately 32 weeks from the end of March to early November. Four trains each way operate.^[2]

Gypsy Lane railway station in 2009, before it was upgraded.

References

1. GB National Rail Timetable May–December 2014, Table 45
2. "Esk Valley Railway : Northern Rail Timetable". Esk Valley Railway Development Company. Retrieved 31 March 2014.

External links

• Train times and station information for Gypsy Lane railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Marton		Northern Esk Valley Line		Nunthorpe