Latest pictures show progress of Darlington Station revamp

Tees Combined Authority said the project is "marching on ready for the end of 2025".

The Eastern Gateway entrance hall and car park have taken shape - and hardworking teams for Network Rail are busy creating the two new platforms "the station needs and deserves".(Image: Tees Valley Combined Authority)

The project will transform rail travel across the North East through a major regeneration of the East Coast Main Line railway station.

The huge project involves carefully blending the old with the new – with a fully accessible footbridge being built over tracks inside the Victorian station to take passengers through an opening in the historic roof over to two modern platforms, a brand new concourse building and a multi-storey car park. 

(Image: Tees Valley Combined Authority)

Network Rail has unveiled the detailed architects’ impressions to show how the new interior staircases, lifts and footbridge will fit in with their Grade II listed surroundings.

Visualisations, created by the project’s design team AECOM, show how their designs respect the original station features and architecture while making it fit for 21st-century travel.

The upgrade to Darlington station is a partnership project between Network Rail, Tees Valley Combined Authority, station operator LNER, Darlington Borough Council and the Department for Transport.(Image: Tees Valley Combined Authority)

Worksite one has seen Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) invest £36m to build a new station concourse building and multi-storey car park to the East of the Grade II listed station. This work is nearing completion and ready to be handed over by TVCA’s contractor Wilmott Dixon in the coming months to Network Rail which will then take on the fit-out.

Recommended reading: 

• Images show progress on Darlington railway station project

• Sneak preview of how £140m Darlington station will look

• Darlington Station footbridge and platform works to begin

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Worksite two involves a £98m investment by Network Rail and the Department for Transport to build two new platforms, new track, railway layout, and signalling systems to improve rail connectivity and performance across the North East, along with a fully accessible link bridge from the existing station building to the new Phase One concourse building.(Image: Tees Valley Combined Authority)

For more information on the Darlington station upgrade click here. 

CGI image looking length of Platform 1 with clear view of new footbridge at Darlington station (Image: Network Rail) (Image: Network Rail)

(Image: Network Rail)