Thornaby train station

You can reach 75 stations directly from Thornaby on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Middlesbrough, with 168 trains a day.

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• 75 direct destinations
• 749th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free throughout
• 58 parking spaces
• 7 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Thornaby

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

and 35 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Thornaby

Thornaby is on the Tees Valley Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Thornaby station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Thornaby station on 439 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 79 paths on the Wednesday, 38 paths on the Saturday and 12 paths on the Sunday. 75 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 15:00 to 16:00 on the Tuesday, with 8 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 Thornaby station is

659,792 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 749th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 60,295 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Thornaby and Newcastle than any other pair: 90,044 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.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Thornaby gains 2 destinations including Mirfield, Brighouse.

Nearest other stations

• Stockton 1.0 miles
• Eaglescliffe 2.8 miles
• Middlesbrough 3.0 miles
• Billingham 3.3 miles
• Allens West 3.4 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Stockton (S&D) · 0.3 miles
• Stockton · 0.4 miles
• Stockton Norton Road · 0.9 miles
• Newport · 1.9 miles
• Norton-on-Tees · 2.8 miles
• Norton Junction · 2.9 miles

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Facilities at Thornaby station

Thornaby is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:45 to 19:00 · Saturday: 05:45 to 19:00 · Sunday: 08:15 to 15:45

Toilets · WiFi

Parking at Thornaby station

• Station Car Park 58 spaces, 4 accessible
  £4.50 a day, £20.00 a week

Cycle parking: 34 spaces (sheltered, racks).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 7 July 2026.

Getting to Thornaby station

Thornaby station is in Stockton-on-Tees, North East, and is run by TransPennine Express.

The nearest motorway junction is A1(M) J60 (Bradbury), 10.6 miles north-west.

7 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Rail Station Footbridge.

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

Thornaby 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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