Hartlepool train station

You can reach 48 stations directly from Hartlepool on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Sunderland, with 75 trains a day.

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• 48 direct destinations
• 702nd busiest in Britain
• Staffed full time
• Step-free throughout
• 125 parking spaces
• 8 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Hartlepool

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

and 8 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Hartlepool

Hartlepool is on the Durham Coast Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Hartlepool station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Hartlepool station on 122 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 20 paths on the Wednesday, 11 paths on the Saturday and 4 paths on the Sunday. 26 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 07:00 to 08:00 on the Monday, with 5 paths booked.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Hartlepool station is

713,672 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 702nd busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 3,344 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Hartlepool and Newcastle than any other pair: 200,832 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.

Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.

Sundays

Sunday is a different railway here: 35 stations instead of 48, a drop of about 27%. Saturday runs to 48.

Nearest other stations

• Seaton Carew 2.0 miles
• Billingham 6.3 miles
• Horden 6.6 miles
• South Bank 7.2 miles
• Redcar Central 7.4 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Hartlepool, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Hartlepool · 1.1 miles
• Hart · 2.9 miles
• Greatham · 3.7 miles
• Blackhall Rocks · 4.7 miles

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Facilities at Hartlepool station

Hartlepool is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday: 07:00 to 18:20 · Saturday: 07:00 to 18:20 · Sunday: closed

Parking at Hartlepool station

• Station Car Park - Operated by Hartlepool Council 125 spaces, 7 accessible
  £0.00 a day

Cycle parking: 8 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 27 August 2026.

Getting to Hartlepool station

Hartlepool station is in Hartlepool, North East, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is A1(M) J60 (Bradbury), 12.2 miles west.

8 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Hartlepool Interchange.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Hartlepool station elsewhere

• National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
• Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
• Wikipedia the station's history
• OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from

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