Bishop Auckland railway station

Bishop Auckland railway station serves the town of Bishop Auckland in County Durham, England. The station is the terminus of the Tees Valley Line north of. The station is on the Bishop Line.CurrentThe station is operated by Northern Rail, which provides Network Rail passenger services. In 2012, Bishop Trains adopted the station from Northern Rail, providing a National Rail Ticket Office and staff for the station. Bishop Trains have further developed the Ticket Office and now provide International rail ticket sales, coach trips and holidays, and more recently, rail charters.ServicesTrains depart southbound to Darlington, and roughly once every two hours, increasing to hourly at peak times. The Sunday service is also two-hourly and, during the summer, includes a through train to via the Esk Valley Line.Bishop Auckland WestWeardale Railway built a separate platform, called Bishop Auckland West, about west of the Northern Rail station, from which regular passenger services to operated from May 2010 until the end of 2012. No regular timetabled services have served Bishop Auckland West since then.HistoryBishop Auckland gained its first rail link in 1842, when the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) backed Bishop Auckland and Weardale Railway (BA&WR) gained the powers via an Act of Parliament to build a railway line from the S&DR's station at via Bishop Auckland and Witton-le-Wear into Crook, County Durham.