the conductor at the start i see a lot as i travel on TPE daily for uni hes lovely

A lot of change since then, firstly its been renamed back to Teesside Airport, the trains now only stop on the one platform (it was too expensive to keep the other platform open) but in better news there are now services to London, Cardiff, Southampton, Dublin, Belfast and improved services to Aberdeen & Amsterdam. In summer you can now fly to Majorca, Bulgaria, Isle of Man and Alicante. Also with the new platforms being built at Darlington it will allow up to 8 trains an hour to serve this line so hopefully a new, closer station will also be considered!

"Teeside Airport: Where God stopped trying"

The International Air Transport Association assigned TEA to the airport in Tela, Honduras. National Rail uses TEA for the Teeside Airport railway station. The IATA code for Durham Tees Valley Airport (formerly Teeside International Airport) is MME.

The saddest thing is that because you guys have Rover tickets, all your awkward stations have counted for 0 passengers in the annual totals.

The Stockton & Darlington was a freight line (it only carried passengers on the opening day), and the Liverpool & Manchester was a passenger line. That's the basic distinction.

Did you know that this is a DOUBLE parliamentary service? Because it's the only service to call at Teesside Airport, AND the only service (except for the open-access Grand Central) to use that side of the triangular junction between Eaglescliffe and Stockton! (It doesn't actually terminate at Eaglescliffe like Geoff said, it runs through to Hartlepool)

Cornish inventor Richard Trevithick's Pen-y-Darren locomotive built in 1802 ( a high pressure steam engine) converted to run on wheels in 1803, is regarded as the first steam locomotive, on 21 February 1804 it pulled a load of 10 tons of iron and 70 men for a distance of 9.75 miles, from Pen-y-Darren, Merthyr Tydfil to Abercynon in South Wales but due to the fact it ran on cast iron rails that broke under the wait of the train it only ran for a short time,so has been rather overlooked in popular history.Technically not a passenger services by modern standards but it did carry people.

My parents once flew to Florida from Tees Valley, back when it had the Heathrow link it was a bustling airport. When that was removed, the airport has pretty much been in freefall (no pun intended). I believe Air Force One once landed with President Bush, probably less hassle to use a quieter airport than to close Newcastle or Manchester.

The platform signs say this platform for Middlesbrough and Saltburn. Only problem is that the one train a week now runs to Hartlepool so doesn't go to either Boro or Saltburn...

Durham Tees Valley Airport (MME) has two flights to Amsterdam on KLM, Aberdeen has 1-2 on Eastern Airways and then one flight weekly in the summer on a Saturday to Jersey with Flybe and occasionally some charters

Teesside airport used to have lots of flights and bus services but a housing development company bought it with an eye to running it down until it died so they could build houses on it . Its a former RAF airfield and so the runway is very long. But a conservative mayor recently took it back into public ownership and renamed it back to Teesside airport (after a poll) and it started to thrive again. Well, until the pandemic anyway . This video was taken at the airport's darkest hour . Ryanair is even back now !

To answer the question at 1:27 : First railway of any sort - Wollaton Waggonway (Nottinghamshire, 1603) First public railway - Surrey Iron Railway (Wandsworth to Croydon, 1803) First railway to carry passengers - Oystermouth Railway (Swansea, 1807) (All the above were horse-drawn) First railway to use steam traction - Middleton Railway (Leeds, 1812 - railway opened in 1758) First public railway to use adhesion-worked steam traction - Stockton & Darlington (1825) First public railway with (a) only steam traction (no horses), (b) stations, (c) timetables, (d) signals - Liverpool & Manchester (1830).

How could we possibly not have a special episode devoted to TEA?

I once actually went with a friend to Stockton for a week, but even though we are from the Netherlands, we flew from Weeze (Germany) to Leeds-Bradford and took a train to Stockton, because that was much cheaper.

Found your channel today and I'm hooked, but, the 1st one I saw you were trying to get to Heathrow on a day hopper bus ticket, and I know I had seen you somewhere before, so I was looking through your lists and I saw the Fanatics video, and that was it, I remember watching it, and yeah your right that mash up round was impossible, Great videos and I look forward to seeing them all, you have gained a new subscriber my friend 👍👍👍

Stockton and Darlington was the first public railway to use steam locomotives, but these were initially for freight only and passenger services were actually horse-drawn until AFTER the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester, which was the first steam passenger service.

Pilney'd be jealous - there's a footbridge. And there are a lot less loved halts out there as you've shown. Plus lovin' the t-shirt with the East Berlin crossing man. With hat.

The Stockton and Darlington (like other railways) was originally made conceived to carry freight when it opened. As such, it opened first (1825). The Liverpool and Manchester was the first railway built to carry passengers as well as freight. So there was just as much significance for when both lines opened but the L&M opened second in 1830. What it shows is that railways were already, even in those early days, becoming an area of interest by the general public as well as captains of industry. This is because the railways, unlike the canals, suddenly opened up connection opportunities for previously isolated communities (only closing when the car became popular (the stations that served them anyway)

Vicky's fascination with Pacers is just divine 😅

Teesside airport also sometimes gets flights diverted from Leeds-Bradford Airport when it gets fogged in (which is annoyingly often)

By pure coincidence - I'd just watched one of your 'least visited' videos, and was thinking of suggesting DTV station for your list... only to find - here you are !

stockton and darlington was the very first railway as we know it today. it was a weekly passenger service on a group of freight lines that got put together. the very first freight line was from Hetton colliery to Sunderland docks

The Stockton & Darlington railway I thought was the railway on which the first passenger train ran. Some claim it to be the first passenger railway but I don't think it had a proper timetable. Also, the only scheduled destinations from Teesside Airport (I refuse to call it Durham Tees Valley!) are Amsterdam (3 times a day) and Aberdeen (2-3 times a day) for offshore workers. I think there's summer flights to places like Jersey, and there's going to be a Norwich service starting later this year.

The Stockton and Darlington was the first public railway, in 1825. But it was single track, and only freight used steam - passenger services used horse drawn coaches. The seal of the railway itself showed a horse drawing a train of small carts! The trains were quite experimental, and early on had reliability issues. As a public railway, often the services weren't run by the S&D themselves - anyone could run a service on the rails. Local inns ran the passenger services for a while. They picked up and set down whereever they liked, as there were no real stations. Steam trains in theory took priority over horse-drawn ones, but often the drivers refused to give way and caused delays or accidents. By contrast, the Liverpool and Manchester opened eight years later in 1833. It had double track all the way. It had stations. It was the first to only use steam trains for power. It was the first to use a signalling system. It was the first to have timetabled services. It was the first to handle the transport of mail. It was the first to run excursion services. It gave us the standard gauge track size. Stockton and Darlington may well be the first public railway that used steam power, but the Liverpool and Manchester had many more firsts. Perhaps more importantly, if All The Stations were being done in 1825 then it would be a very short endeavour, as there were no stations to visit. Therefore I submit that, for the purposes of All The Stations, the Liverpool and Manchester railway must be considered the first railway.

Durham Tees Valley (MME or EGNV) is still owned and operated by Peel Holdings IIRC. Not been there for ages but think that it's survival is very much down to MAFF and oil rig activity plus the few commercial flights which still operate into there. Still recently described to me as 'more of a bog than a toilet' by a Certified Flight Instructor though ...

Liverpool & Manchester, first passenger railway, opened in 1830. The Stockton & Darlington was opened in 1825. However, Richard Trevithick constructed the first ever steam railway locomotive in 1804.

The stockton and Darlington was opened in 1825 and was the first to use steam engines. The Manchester and Liverpool opened in 1830 and was the first to use ONLY steam engines, no horses at all.

The Manchester to Liverpool line was the first passenger steam line to link two cities in 1826. The Stockton and Darlington line was the first steam passenger line. Opened in 1825

I remember when it was Middleton St George. I also flew on a small charter to Brussels for the day, back in the early 1970s. Never got off at the train station, though passed it by a number of times.

Hey Geoff and Vicki, You should come back up again! Do some more train vids up in Teesside.

oh Stalybridge, how often have I froze on your platforms thanks to Northern Rail

The train didn't wait at Eaglescliffe, it continued to Hartlepool (which is a different line, Sunday-only, to the timetable you were reading, which is why it 'disappeared')

When are you coming to Newcastle?

When Teesside Airport was RAF Middleton St George, Airmen on leave - my Uncle was one - would get the train back from wherever (likely NE England) and go past the base fence, pull the emergency cord, leap off the train then walk back to their barracks to avoid the apparently massive (and awkward if late back on weekend leave) walk to/through the main gate.

Damn it Geoff, I missed you at Darlington! I would have bought you a tea!

Liverpool & Manchester was all steam hauled from the start in 1830. Stockton & Darlington was coal trains were steam hauled from 1825, but passenger steam hauled from 1833. Hopefully that clears it up for you all.

Manchester to Liverpool had the first operation PASSENGER service. However, Stockport to Darlington was the first operational railway in general. ie freight services

We miss you Vicki

Have you been to Breich?

It doesn't sit at Eaglescliffe. Even the footnote said that it continues to my local station Hartlepool

I flew out of there once, to Dublin, but it was a good few years back

Now only 6 flights to/from Aberdeen and 3 to/from Amsterdam from TEA each day

Are non-matching earrings gorpcore?

I remember the facebook live stream. It looks like Stockton and Darlington Railway was indeed the first public railway to use steam. 1825 v Manchester - Liverpool 1829

The S&DR was not the first public railway, it was not the first to be built under an act of Parliament or the first to use steam locomotives. It was the first public railway to have seen a steam powered passenger train but that was a special on the opening day and passenger "trains" for the first few years were horse-drawn coaches operated under licence. What distinguishes the S&DR is that it was the first line to be built with locomotive operation in mind. It marks the moment in history when waggonways stopped being just a way to get coal to the nearest canal or port (perhaps pulled by one of those new-fangled dillys) and became railways- a mode of transport in their own right. That is as good a claim as any to being the first modern railway. It has been acknowledged as such for most of the 190+ years since it opened but recently there appears to have been a concerted effort to dismiss it as just another wagonway. The argument seems to be that it wasn't an inter-city railway with an intensive passenger service so it doesn't count for some reason. In the last few years I have seen Manchester announcing itself as the birthplace of railways while there have been at least three TV "documentaries" that were supposed to be about the early history of railways yet didn't even mention the S&DR which is just fatuous. Yes the S&DRs passenger service was vestigial but at the time even Darlington, far and away the largest town on the route, had only a few thousand inhabitants. There just weren't that many passengers or potential passengers. The fact is both the S&DR and the L&MR are important milestones in the development of railways. Perhaps the S&DR could be thought of as the prototype with the L&MR the first production model. The prototype always comes first though. If anyone's wondering I do live in County Durham (and I'm in the Friends of Darlington Railway Museum at North Road Station) but I was born and raised in the West Midlands and my mother's from Liverpool.

And as a Bostonian, I all of a sudden got really confused for a minute when you said it was a T station.

In the mid 1990s I often used to catch a flight from Newcastle to Gatwick which called into Teeside on the way - very rarely picked anyone up 😊

Hurray DARLINGTON! The best place and station in world! You should have come and seen Tees Cottage Pumping Station (where I work) it’s amazing!

It doesnt wait at Eaglescliffe. It goes to Hartlepool and branmceshes off on the GC lines and waits at H'pool for 10 mins before coming back. This service has now been changed and only one train now stops at MME and that is at 12:36 to Hartlepool. #localknowledge

Attractively Unusual (!!) Worth the Effort for us to see

I used to get a Newcastle to Boro train to work back in the 90s that used to call at teeside airport and Allens west and in al the times I got the train I don't remember seing anyone get on or off at either station!

I stayed at the airport hotel in the late 80s / early 90s. It had been the Officer's Mess when MME / TEA had been an RAF station. It was reputedly haunted by the ghost of an airman who was being retrained on jets from propeller driven aircraft. Apparently, he left the runway to taxi down a taxiway but lost control and crashed into the Mess and sadly died. I neither heard nor saw, nor felt anything remotely spooky there, but It was the quietest airport hotel I've ever stayed at!

All the Wind Noise

and now teeside airport only gets 1 train a week now

Geoff and Vicki didn't answer the obvious question: What do you do once you've got off the train? How do you get to the airport? Do they send a car or a shuttle? If not, what is the point of even having a station there?

What will vicki do when all the pacers are gone?

In 2000 my wife and I began a ‘around the world’ honeymoon from .......... Teeside Airport! Fond memories of what then was a functional airport.

Huh the first transpennine guards normally operate the doors from the back cab

were she going

The Middleton railway in leeds was the first operational railway In the world starting in 1758 being pulled by horses and getting the first successful working steam locomotive in 1812 but it never carried passengers until it was preserved in the 1960s

Could say when combined with part of the bridge signage and the CS short code, was erm 'WeakTea' on the menu?? *ducks*

About the railway question, Manchester to Liverpool was the first Intercity railway

Does the weak bridge say no standing on footbridge? What's the point of having a footbridge then??

I get that 'It's just a train' moment with birds. When someone says, look! an (evil, grr), seagull. I will think, It's a herring gull. Which are lovely. What about common gulls, black headed gulls, lesser black-backed gulls, etc. etc. It's in the poem 'The Whitsun Weddings' by Phillip Larkin. Read it if you like travelling by train. It will blow you away.

Now the service gets 1 train a week but only in 1 direction so that Northern could stop maintaining the footbridge so now if you got off you could not take a train back home

Only flights Durham Tees valley gets are Norwich, Aberdeen, Humberside, Jersey and Amsterdam. There were flights to London ages ago operated by BMI, but no more. Ryanair served the airport for a while, but left a few years ago, due to the £6 fee introduced that departing passengers must pay, before going through security. It's because the airport is running at a loss and under threat.

vicky- the only person on the planet excited about a pacer

The airport is now getting more Aberdeen planes and new Norwich flights

This should have been an episode of Least Used Stations

Is it 'facebooking live' or 'facebook live-ing'?

The ultimate thing to do is start from Darlington, one person drives to Teesside Airport, the other gets the train, and at the station hand the keys over so both people tick off the station.

I love Pacers, all of them

Hasn't been a London flight for years.

It was Stockton and Darlington

You can't fly to London just humberside, Aberdeen and Amsterdam and the airports code is MME

In 2020/21 this station only got 2 passengers for an entire year!!!

The 12:36 at Teeside Airport actually starts at Hartlepool at 12:05 not Eaglescliffe

The bridge is now closed, only one train comes on Sundays....the station has deteriorated. But the airport has improved.

They are removing the bridge and one of the platforms so only one side used on sunday

it was stockton and darlington

I wonder if anyone's been unfortunate enough to get off that 12:36 going the other way in error, and then find themselves stranded there for a week!! If they forgot their mobile too, with that phone box not working, they couldn't even call for a taxi!!

Any plans to invest in this station and in more services? (Otherwise it's totally pointless having it.)

That moment when you're going to fly to Durham tees valley in october..........

His t-shirt is AMPELMANN!!!!!

I can see this being one of those stations that loses its other platform when the line is electrified.

Somewhat annoyingly, a lot of the train companies apps don't even recognise Teesside Airport as a Station to be able to purchase a ticket from... ! :-( this includes even the local TOCs such as Northern, TPE and Cross Country !!! The East Coast website you can can, and similarly for the trainline.. very strange...!

At 5:17 when Geoff opens the car door I thought it was Matt Lucas driving!

Another great vid.. well done

Oh good

The Stockton and Darlington opened before the Liverpool and Manchester, BUT only freight trains were steam-hauled at first, passenger trains were horse-drawn. Steam-hauled passenger services began in 1833, after the Liverpool and Manchester opened in 1830. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_and_Darlington_Railway en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_and_Manchester_Railway

You forgot to do the tick!!!

Correction Teesside Airport gets 2 flights to Amsterdam

Durham Tees-Valley has no flights to London...

What's the point of that station? Must be a waste of money maintaining the place when it only gets one service a week. And can you even access the airport from the platform.

Teesside airport has a surprising amount of private airplanes land, I know Duncan Bannatyne is a frequent user as is The Powell Brothers, Tom Hardy and some other guy who is a property developer from Wynyard

Anyone else here after TEA became another #ClosedNotClosed station?

Dave is wearing an Ampelmann T-shirt! How cool is that?

Vicky, you've finally admitted it publicly ... you only love Pacers to wind Geoff up !!!

Did you do British Steel Redcar Geoff Vicky?